Day 84 - Penzance & Land's End

I highly recommend visiting Penzance and Land's End. But I don't recommend trying to go there and back in one day. Today I spent 11 hours on trains and 2.5 hours on busses. That was pretty much all I did.

I saw some great scenery. Devon and Cornwall are beautiful. There were three big surprises on this trip: 1) There's a lot of civilization way out there! 2) Parts of Plymouth look A LOT like San Francisco. And 3) Land's End itself is very commercialized and a bit disappointing. Part of the disappointment with Land's End might have been the weather (the weather was 'rubbish', raining and bad visibility). But I was very impressed with Penzance and most of Devon & Cornwall. I'd love to go back to Penzance and spend more time there. Some of the people in Penzance actually did talk kinda like pirates.



Here's the map again, showing my last two trips. I've now been to 35 of the 39 counties in England.



I might need to amend the county count. I assumed Gatwick Airport was in Surrey, but now I'm pretty sure it's in Sussex (I've seen conflicting information about that). If I can confirm that Gatwick is indeed in Sussex, the number will go up to 36.

posted by Matt @ 11:59 PM