Cornwall Trip, Day 3: St. Michael's Mount, Land's End

Saturday morning we woke up and decided to drive down to the very tip of England, where there are a bunch of towns and things worth visiting. We had considered going to a castle called St. Michael's Mount, which is on a tiny island off the coast, but we called them that morning and they are closed in the winter except when the tide is low enough that there's a walkway people can walk across, which was not the case on that particular day. So we were just going to go straight to a place called Land's End, which I'll get to later, but as we were driving we passed right by St. Michael's Mount and decided to stop on the beach even though we couldn't walk all the way up to the castle. It was a really beautiful view on a very sunny (though still cold) day.

Some pics:
This is St. Michael's Mount. You can see the castle perched on top.






This was us sitting at a brick wall separating the road from the beach.

Our feet, on the beach.

This is me by the road before we got back in the car, with a pretty good view of the English countryside behind me.

After stopping here, we went onto Land's End, which takes its name from the fact that it is literally where the land ends. You drive down the road to get there, and then the road just stops, and it's cliffs and rocks and the Atlantic Ocean for as far as the eye can see. It was an absolutely beautiful day and an absolutely beautiful spot.

It's worth clicking to enlarge some of these to get a good look at the view:







It was insanely windy up here. We are getting blown away in pretty much all of these pictures.




This is a sign they posted there that was kind of cool.

After that we drove around to a couple towns that had been recommended to us. They were fairly cute, but I have no pictures or anything particularly interesting to report from them. We drove back home that evening, made some more food, and just hung out and drank at our place the rest of the evening, which was actually quite fun. We talked about language and accents and movies and compared our political systems and just had generally interesting and fun conversation. And then it was off to bed in preparation for our last day in Cornwall.