Yesterday we spent most of the day driving form Blandford St Mary to Porthcurno near Land's End. We did stop in at Lyme Regis, a small fishing village, famous for being the location of the film, "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1981). Yes, 33 years ago but still worth a few tourist dollars.

Lyme Regis with the French Lieutenant's Woman's pier in the distance

Today we drove north along the Cornwall coast to Tintagel, reputed birth place of King Arthur. While there was plenty of Arthur memorabilia and tourist trinkets aplenty, I'm not sure Arthur would have spent much time there given that he was snatched away at birth and given to someone else to foster. But never let the facts(?) of a legend interfere with tourism! The castle was built in 1233 by Earl Richard of Cornwall, mainly, it seems, to gain prestige from the Arthur legend. So even them a good story was more important than the truth!
The castle now is in ruins with just the outlines of buildings giving an idea of what it was like.

On our way back we called in to Port Isaac, or to Doc Martin fans, Port Wenn. It's another beautiful fishing village set in an inlet off the Atlantic We saw a number of houses from the series but most of them looked quite different now that filming has finished.

Doc Martins house

One of the interesting things we noticed in our drive north is the incredible number of towns named after Cornish Saints, Here are a few that we found: St Austell, St Brioc, St Budoc, St Buryan  (we had dinner at the St Buryan Inn), St Carantoc, St Cuby, St Day, St Euny, St Gwinear, St Ives, St Just, St Kew. St Levan and the list goes on!