London experience: Cornwall and Devon

Cliffs, near Mousehole

Hello

Last week I traveled in Cornwall and Devon. They are two counties in Southwest England and are famous for their beautiful nature. Many British go there for the summer holiday. I decided to hitch hike there as it was the first time when I had time to do that and I was really interested how is it in England. It was not easy, but I made it... The hard thing is that its forbidden to stand on the motorways and you can be fined so I had to stand on the exits where its not easy to get a ride...

Anyways, I made it to Plymouth where I stayed for a few days. I did my travels from there. Plymouth is nothing really special as a town, but its a good location I think if you want to travel around.

I took one day to visit Cornwall, which was not really enough. I would say you need about 3 days to see everything what's worth to see. So Cornwall seems to have its own language - Cornish. It was taken over by English by the 18th century but now ppl try to bring it back to life. It is very much like Welsh and Breton, so it's Celtic. You can really see that when you look at the map and see all these cities that you don't know how to pronounce :)

So I took a train to Penzance, walked around the beach a bit, then went to Mousehole. That was a very cozy little town. Different from the English ones. The vibe reminded me Croatian coast villages as they also were on the mountain by the sea. And all the narrow little streets with flowers growing from everywhere and the houses made of stones.

Then I went to St Ives which is The Place to go in Cornwall. Very touristic and very crowded but still all so lovely. Visited one fudge shop which was sooo traditional, run by an elderly couple who were doing everything so elegantly, slowly, politely, no rush, no artificial smiles, just being totally British :)

The last stop was Truro, Cornwall's capital. Was all very quiet, maybe because its was an evening already...

The next day we went to Dartmoore which is a huge park in Devon. Beautiful :)

I took a bus back from there, did not want to stand on the road all day again :)

Here is all the route I made:

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