England 3

The map calls road like this major routes! Luckily we only encountered traffic when there was space to pass. Peter kept saying, over and over, 'Love it!'

This church was very 'elderly'! It was a well preserved Norman church, still in use in Tintagel, on the Cornish coast. Some grave stones were beyond deciphering, others dated back to the 1700s and there were recent graves as well.

The graves were on all 4 sides of the church.

Check ou the thickness of the walls!

Peaceful. All welcome...just close the door to keep the birds out!

The old post office. It became a post office because the residents of the town were sending out 125 letters a day, way back...some time!

Tintagel castle, or what remains of it, sits on the headland overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. This hole is one of the lookout spots.

 Check out Peter's Summer attire!

 These steps were incredibly steep. I was quite concerned as I went down and very careful not to ruin my holiday by doing damage to ankles, etc!

Those steps, from another angle.

 The camera is tilted 45degrees to capture both parts of this castle, built in medieval times by Richard, Earl of Cornwall. Only ruins remain now and many walls of the castle have fallen into the sea. The castle has been linked to the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table. Depending on where you read the information about Arthur, it is either totally true that Arthur was conceived at the castle or the castle was built 600 years after Arthur's death. I left the area confused about the legend and what was fact and what was myth!

 Nothing can detract from the views though. It's a stunning area to visit and the castle ruins, being my first ever castle, were well worth the effort of climbing up and down slate staircases and almost vertical roads!

We left Tintagel around 2pm and traveled to Plymouth in far less time than we'd ever travelled anywhere in England before. Only at the end of our journey did we come into difficulties as, with our international sim not providing good data, we located our hotel based on screen shots on the iPad. All ended well though and we strolled around this seaside destination reading about Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada before finding a pub and eating an English meal of bangers and mash! Another item ticked off the bucket list, along with seeing a red double decker bus, a red pillar box postal box and a red telephone box. Doing well!