St Ives, Cornwall
A holiday with HF Holidays
31st May to 5th April 2014.
Day 1
We walked skimming the clifftops
Unsteady feet on random rocky paths
The Tinners Way, a dizzy ascent
Of stony Cornish stiles across our path.
Day 2
Dirt stairs pinned to the eroding cliffs
Walking on the edge of precipices
The destructive foaming sea below
They paved Lands End once paradise.
Day 3
Gentle paths lined with wild flowers
Pink campions and yellow buttercups
The woodland shores of the Penrose estate
Where we found weathered flint pebbles.
Day 4
Through the Garden in tropical rainforests
We sweated our way between hardwood trees
Cool Ice creams in the Mediterranean
Driving rain and Arctic weather homeward bound.
Day 5
At Mawnan with its smith and church
Down to a rocky beach and ships at sea
Through wooded coasts to Durban's cove
Trebah's water gardens and sacred trees.
Day 6
Suffering with gout I sat out the day
Drawing sketches which won a little prize
The evening we spent in a pub in town
And the night time dancing reels and jigs.
