Visiting Tintagel castle - King Arthur's birthplace

Tintagel Castle in Cornwall England, or Dintagel as it's called in Cornish, is probably the busiest castle we have been to. Allegedly King Arthur was born there a long time ago. The castle is in ruins but it's very pretty. And it's a perfect place for family fun!

House in the village

Land's End - the most westerly place of England

Our next stop was Land's End. It's the most westerly place of Cornwall and England. This is our second visit so it's obvious we really like it. This time we stayed at the Land's End hotel - we could think of nothing better than to stay in the middle of it and we really hoped we would catch the sunset. But first off, Pendennis Castle. It was built in 1539 for King Henry VIII to guard the entrance of the river Fal. There is another castle, St Mawes, which is its opposite number of the east bank and they were built to defend from the French and Spanish threats of future attacks.

Caught some bees outside the castle...

...as well as some guys who were fishing

We got to Land's End in the late afternoon...

....and we managed to catch a bit of the sunset

The morning after we took a walk. 

The landscape is very rugged

And they have a farm close by. We were met by a rooster who kept guard. 

Their pig was catching a lot of attention. 

First day in Cornwall

It's getting colder in England. And when it does, what is better than to go back to your pictures from this summer, which is the best summer so far in the five years I have spend in England. We made two trips this summer - one where we went north and one where we went south. The ones from below is from Cornwall. First off is from Restormel Castle (Kastel Rostormel in Cornish) - a stronghold of the Black Prince. The castle is one of the four chief Norman castles of Cornwall (together with Launceston, Tintangel and Trematon).

Then we went on to Looe (Logh or 'deep water inlet' in Cornish) where we spent our first night. Below is Nelson, who watches over the fishing boats coming in to the harbour.

Not that vicious... ;-)

Low tide. Always amazes me.

Sneak peak of the Lake district

Earlier this summer, when it was still nice outside, we went on a trip to Hadrian's wall - the Roman wall that goes from coast to coast and was protecting the Roman empire from the north. On the way we passed through the Lake District. So pretty! Will we go back there - most definitely!!

Moonlight over Corfe Castle

This past weekend we went to Poole in Dorset to spend Saturday at the beach. On the way back we drove by Corfe Casle. The sun was about to go down - what a view!

Canterbury tales

When waking up on Saturday morning Maria suggested a road trip. We haven't been in a while and she thought we could go to Bath. We discussed a bit and decided to go east. We started with Charles Darwin's house outside of London and then continued east to Kent and Canterbury. Despite its size (43,000 people live there), Canterbury is one of the most visited places in England.

As in many places in England it is very green and nice in the area

We ran into some cows

Once in Canterbury, which really is a lovely little town (we had dinner at Trapiste, a Belgian restaurant that we really recommend) we started out with the cathedral.

Very beautiful...

...and peaceful

Once done we took a short stroll in the town. We ran into a somewhat crooked house... Over the door was a quote from Charles Dickens...

After Canterbury we drove on in search of other sights. We found a cross and a viking ship...

Finally we had dinner in lovely little Margate. We drove by a sign advertising for a Soviet restaurant in and decided to check it out. Lovely food and very good service. Overall, the service in this part of the country really surprised us and we really enjoyed the people - so friendly!