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Cornwall / Land's End, England 2001 |
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It was an amazing long-weekend, only couple hundred miles from London and you get into a totally different world where time goes slower and life stayed as it used to be hundreds years ago. It's difficult to descrive what Cornwall looks like - you need to be there to feel it. It's not the usuall pictiresque beauty of english countryside but another kind of beauty - cold, bare, minimalistic, more like Scottish Highlands than English South-West. It' the place that lives with it' own life with a mininum dependence or even interest in the outside world. The owner of the pub where we stayed for lunch said "...hey, you are from London? I was there once too, in 195..., when they took me to Army. Never been there since, never really wanted...what would I do there, I belong to this place" |
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This is Cornwall - the south-western tip of Britain |
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The typical landscape of Cornwall - rocks and heath as far as you can see and blistering wind. Nothing special some may say, but it is beautiful in its special way and it puts a spell on you. |
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Beach in Newquay, small town at the southern coast of Cornwall. This sea is never warm... Strong winds almost all around the year make this area one of the most favorite spots for surfers who come here from all across UK and abroad |
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Lands End - the old settlers of Cornwall believed that this is the ned of the Earth and the only thing beyound this point is endless Ocean. Nowadays Brits know much more about the world, ut also about how to make money: put a fence around something famous and charge 5 pounds for entrance. |
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New York is some 6,000 miles behind me... |
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Cornwall's newcomer , which from a distance looks like X-Files... - "Project Eden" near the town of Penzance, is a giant flora conservatory built by UK government as one of the projects to celberate new Millenium. It is supposed to be the largest collection of the plants from all parts of the worlds gathered under one roof. It' huge and fascinating - ouide it was cold britisg spring, inside it was tropical heat and humidity, rivers, waterfalls, jungles... Only this by itslef is worth visiting Cornwall! |
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