{"id":2626,"date":"2016-11-20T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2016-11-20T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T17:02:12","slug":"lands-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2626","title":{"rendered":"Land’s End"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can’t go to Cornwall without going to Land’s End.
\nThat’s … just how it works.<\/p>\n

So I took a bus.
\nDouble-deckers, it turns out, give an excellent view, but magnify the sway on narrow country lanes.
\nThat guy on the left isn’t just resting his hand there; You did need to hang on.<\/p>\n

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As near as I can tell, their method of keeping the trees back so that the bus can get through is to … drive the bus through.
\nThere were a number of solid ‘thwack!’s on the windscreen.<\/p>\n

After about an hour, you reach Land’s End.<\/p>\n

In summer there’s probably a fair bit of tourist bustling, and the 4D cinema would be showing “Shaun The Sheep”\u00a0(there were signs)<\/em>, but this was winter, so they were running a stripped down operation and a bunch of maintenance.
\nThe souvenir shop was open, as was the restaurant\/bar.<\/p>\n

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This is one end of the Land’s End to John o’ Groats<\/a> route across Great Britain; Depending on the route you take and the method of transport, it’s somewhere between 850 & 1200 miles.<\/p>\n

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It’s on the windy side, and I’m very glad I went for the soft shell jacket over the hoodie; There was rain at times, and the wind was damn<\/em> cold.<\/p>\n

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There’s not a whole lot else to say; The photos give a better idea of the place than I can give by typing.<\/p>\n

The wind howls through, and I was having to put in a little bit of effort to walk against it at times.
\nTaking that selfie nearly cost me the cellphone, because the screen was face-on to the wind, and a gust just after I took that shot nearly took it right out of my hands.<\/p>\n

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Any plants here are the sort that can cling\u00a0to the soil for dear life. I’m assuming that any tree which gets too big finds itself carried off inland.<\/p>\n

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If you were starting the end to end walk … this is what it looks like.
\nYou see the sign pictured earlier, turn around, and … there it is.<\/p>\n

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While waiting for the bus\u00a0(there aren’t\u00a0that many of them, so I made sure to get\u00a0there in plenty of time – one of the others from the bus was already waiting)<\/em> I wandered around to look at the side of the headland, which looked marginally more green than the raggedy edge of the thing.<\/p>\n

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On the way back, I spotted the lurking dinosaur.<\/p>\n

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I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

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