St. Malo, France - Spring 1987

After my stay in Penzance, Cornwall, I took a series of trains via London's Paddington Station (glass roof leaked like a sieve in the rain!) and Victoria Station to Portsmouth and then on by ferry to the island of Jersey off the French coast. I missed the ferry heading for Jersey and had to wait until the next day to head out. After a couple of days there on Jersey, it was on to St. Malo by hydrofoil. We left later passing the steamer, which left St.Helier before us, about halfway to the French port. The image above is a cropped version of the original photo which is only somewhat larger than this one. Enjoy! - V

Penzance and the Cornish coast - Spring 1987

The trip to Europe in the spring of 1987 started with the island of Britain. The first stop was Edinborough, Scotland but my favourite place was Penzance, a quaint seaside resort and I'd love to go there again but longer of course! The second was Cornwall, Penzance in particular. On the way from London I stopped in Plymouth where I waited for a connecting train to Penzance further west. I shared a waiting room with an English sailor doing studies by flashlight plus another guy having a snooze late at night. We were all waiting for connecting trains. I know I was zonked by the time I got to my destination after traveling by train from Scotland, through London and on to the West Country the previous day.

Above is St.Michael's Mount which has something in common with Mont St. Michael in Normandy in that the same church order once owned both. As you can see, the skies over the English Channel were grey and overcast. Over land it was a different story!
Then you've all got a rare treat of me on the boat near St.Michael's Mount in the photo below. The cute guy didn't escape my attention!
The image below looks down from the castle on the Mount on the centre of the island.
I took a long walk along the coast on one of the days at Penzance which took me through the fishing village of Mousehole and other places. What follows are typical scenes along the Cornish coast.
I walked west along the coast road and then back to Penzance through Mousehole (image below). I took these images on my way back once I'd noted the scenes worth photographing. I hope you've enjoyed them! Perhaps they've even taken your thoughts off the dullness of winter?!?!- V