A Trip to the West Country, part 1 : comments [S. Worthen

We were just sticking our first toe in the Cornish waters - so to speak - with this trip. We certainly succeeded in being there out of season. The first week of January let us book anything we wanted only a few days in advance. But we weren't out of a fairly tame landscape, except insofar as the coastline near Tintagel is cliffs and foam. Thank you for the recommendations of places to go nex time!

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I guess the other thing I'd say about visiting Cornwall is that it really rewards people prepared to get out of their cars and walk a few miles. I can recall walking from Newquay to Tintagel and arriving to see dozens of people huddled in their cars looking out miserably over an admittedly blustery Atlantic while I'd just enjoyed a half day walking over some of the finest cliff scenery on the coast. Again, for my money, west Penwith has the finest coastal hiking but the whole north coast is pretty good.

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The Rough Guide too recommended hiking as the best way to see Cornwall. The only degree to which we took any advantage of that was at Tintagel, where we followed some of the paths along the sea cliffs, and approached it from a nearby vista cliff instead of directly. Dartmoor was the biggest waste of walking (not that that's in Cornwall) since we mostly drove through it. Also, it was raining and foggy for most of our time on it, so even the half-dozen times we stopped and looked around, it wasn't the most heartening weather for beginning a longer walk.

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