Lands End Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Trains Booked...So, I booked the train tickets today.  I set off from Birmingham on the 2nd June and should arrive in Penzance late that evening.  I will then have a quick half hour or so ride to the youth hostel at Lands End where I will hopefully get a good nights sleep before the first day of riding. The return journey will be a long day and I have booked myself onto the train from Thurso on 16th June.  The journey back to Preston (where I will stay in my uni halls of resid…

There are so many narrow roads to drive along to get to Lands End.  The roads barely fit a large car let alone traffic going each way.  We had to stop and reverse a few times along the way as caravans wanted to come from the other direction.  Arrived at Lands End to find a big carpark, hotel and some other attractions - of course they wanted £3 to park and get in, bit the bullet and went in as we didn't drive all that way for nothing (which is probably what everyone think…

So another day and another set of Kodak Moments. If Tintagel was on every travel book's "must see sceneries", then Land's End was on every book's "must see natural British beauty", to a point where it almost seemed imperative that every traveller that visits Cornwall has to get his picture taken at Land's End, much like posing with the Beefeaters at the Tower of London, or in front of the Statue of Liberty in NYC. I must admit though, when I saw pictures of it at my Frommer's guide, I did thi…

This was the first time I had travelled on my own.