Pendeen to St. Ives

A very early start today, Bernie was walking by 8.30! It had rained heavily in the night, but the morning was pleasant, windy and warm, if cloudy. The forecast wasn't too good, but there were bright spots throughout the day even though it did look like rain early afternoon.

I drove the van to St. Ives - thank goodness there was hardly any traffic as it was only my second time driving it and I was dreading meeting a bus on these narrow Cornish roads. After parking the van (carefully) I caught an open top bus again to meet Bernie at Zennor, where I joined him to walk the pleasant path back to St.Ives.

We then fulfilled an ambition to go to the Tate Gallery here, but I think we both found it a little disappointing and I really am not sure about some of the work by Simon Starling. This was soon forgotten as we climbed up the hill and visited Barbara Hepworth's Museum and Sculpture Garden. Fantastic and well worth a visit.

Cornish pasties for tea, but not as good as Pam's!

From Bernie:

• today's walk 13.3 miles Cumulative distance : 23.5 miles
• bumped into the 3 gents walking the South-West Coast Path again - they'd also spent the night in Pendeen
• if you're reading this, Stephen, I did think of you on today's walk, particularly whilst enjoying a couple of pints in 'The Tinners Arms', Zennor - 'Zennor Mermaid', highly recommended & a huge improvement on yesterday's beer!
• Barbara Hepworth's sculptures were an obvious highlight of the day but the bluebells & gorse on the clifftops of Rosemergy were quite impressive & I loved the sense of humour of this Porthmeor farmer..... if the picture will publish