My heart was set on Cross Fell, ‘Fiends Fell’ they call it. The highest point in the Pennines. Reputed to be the home of demons and evil, a reputation probably gained from the shrieking Helm Wind that blows across its slopes. It has been calling me for a while and is first on my list […]
Bodmin Moor is something else entirely. It’s not a big place really, relatively speaking. Dartmoor is more than 4 times the size. It has though, a character to equal its much larger, much more visited Devonian relative. Bodmin Moor stretches north to south across the mid Cornwall. Roughly situated between the towns of Launceston, Liskeard […]
An impromptu camping trip this weekend. It is May after all. The best month. The urge to go West has been getting incrementally stronger since starting this little project. I cherish Penwith and do not make the surprisingly considerable effort enough. It is a blogger’s paradise, littered with beauty, intrigue and history. So with the […]
It occurred to me as I walked the crest of Row Tor, both coasts visible, that there are few places, patches and pieces of land left here that I have not traversed over the years. Actually, as I walked southwards towards the under visited Hawk’s Tor along the bottle-brown, gin clear De Lank river, the […]
