It's the weekend and the weather has turned. Typical!!!! Overcast skies that threatened rain turned everything grey. As we also had strong winds we hoped that it would blow over but by 2:00pm we realized it was going to be with us for some time so we put on our walking shoes and headed for a 15km hike along the coast that would take us to a small fishing village called Mousehole. On the way we passed through Newlyn, a fishing village where most of Cornwall's larger fishing boats are moored. Mousehole is a very pretty village with a very small but well protected harbour, thus it's name. In the past Mousehole was famous for smuggling, fishing and being the last place where Cornish was spoken. Today tourism drives the economy. As most of our walking had been on concrete pathways, we decided to take a walk past the village up into the surrounding countryside following a dirt track trail. It was a hilly hike but the scenery was well worth the effort. Unfortunately, the pictures I took do not do the place justice but we will return when the sun comes out.
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