Our main reason for going to Land's End was, well - if we're going to the Southwest, why not just go all the way to Land's End? It will be fun to be able to say we've been, right?
It turned out to be the most beautiful place we went to this whole trip. I'm so glad to have seen it.
It was a sunny day with blue skies, until about ten minutes before we got to Land's End; we drove into a thin fog, which hid the sun but didn't seep the colours out of the surroundings. The light was magical and perfect.
Land's End is a weird place. There's a whole area with cafés and adventure golf and shops selling touristy knicknacks and it all feels a bit contrived and tacky. And then there's this famous sign of course - where you pay to have your own message added to the sign and then a photographer takes your picture in front of it (which I obviously didn't do, though I did sneak this photo from the side).
But as soon as you've passed through all of those buildings and made it out on the other side, there's just cliffs and views and beauty and the sea.
Liam found a thing to poke at (this photo is called "a Portrait of Liam Poking Things" and is part of a collection of many).
And then he patiently waited while I took some more photos ...
... like this one. We decided to walk over to that little white house to the right in this photo ...
... which is called the First and Last House. I like the name. Of course, it has to be both the first and the last house in England, if you don't know which direction people are coming from.
From there, we continued up the hill along the Coast Path ...
... and took some selfies. I was very happy.
I decided to walk a bit further along the path, while Liam went back to the shops for a fika. That square little stone hut on the far left seemed a good (lagom!) distance away.
Everything about this walk was fantastic. A very pleasant path, easy walking, perfect weather for it, and fantastic views the whole way.
And if the views weren't enough, there's a shipwreck too! (It's actually gigantic, much bigger than it looks in this photo.)
I did make it to the little stone hut - a lookout. It took maybe half an hour from the First and Last House, and that's including many photo stops. :)
On the other side of the ridge the Coast Path descends into Sennen Cove, but I'll have to save that for another time, at some point when I'll come back and do longer stretches of the Coast Path.
I turned back towards Land's End instead.
And took almost the exact same photo that I took on the way out, but this time, the fog had lifted a bit and I could see further.
The First and Last House viewed from the other side ...
... then this same sign again, but with a clearer view of the Longships.
And one more selfie to say goodbye to this beautiful place.
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