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bladup Sep 21, 2012 21:05:06
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PMM wrote:
I'd never knowingly been to any prehistoric site before I was given a copy of TMA. I devoured the essays at the front, and read the gazetteer with some interest. As luck would have it, a couple of months later, I was lucky enough to go on a camping holiday in Cornwall.

I went to quite a few sites there. I think the first was Men-an-tol.

I'd love to go back there some time. The tip of Cornwall is so beautiful.

Thanks, i feel very lucky to live down here [the tip of cornwall], it is beautiful, i can leave my front door and any way i choose to go leads to lots of beautiful places, which is good because i don't/can't drive.

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PMM Sep 21, 2012 21:17:51
Replying to bladup

We stayed in a place called Levant. Travelled overnight and got to the north coast somewhere a little further east as the sun came up.

The sea was blue.

No. The sea was BLUE. It was sea with the contrast turned upto the max. Here on the banks of the Irish Sea, I'm used to a sea that's a drab dull grey, and that's on a sunny day.

At night, we went walking. In the sky there were stars. Hardly any orange glow. Just clear all the way to the edge of the universe.

The landscape was rugged, barren. Almost a monoculture. Just rock and grass and gorse. Hardly a tree to speak of. You could see the shape of the earth beneath it. Almost a wilderness to us city dwellers.

And just to put the cherry on top, it was my holiday with a woman who I fell deeply in love with, and eventually married.

Going all misty eyed here. Perhaps next year we will make it down there.