How to do Cornwall in a day

The morning started with a hearty breakfast and we were on the road by 9am.  We drove straight through for about 2 hours until we got to Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.  Apparently, it's popular with Daphne DuMaurier fans as one of her novels is based there.  I guess I'll have to read it.  It was a cool building on a sweeping moor (except we couldn't see much of it due to fog).  Back on the road and another hour to St. Ives which is a quaint seaside town on Cornwall's west coast.  We stopped at an advertised car park and ended up having to walk down a steep path/steps to get to the center of town.  There was a very fine, misty rain.  We looked out at the harbour but couldn't see too far out to sea for the fog.  On our way back to the car, we grabbed a Cornish pasty,each, for the road.  They were fresh, hot and very yummy!  We then took a tiny, windy road along the west coast south towards Land's End.  When I say tiny, I don't mean North America tiny, I mean Europe tiny so hardly enough room for 2 tiny cars to pass and edged with high stonewalls covered in greenery

Next we stopped at Sennen Cove and dipped our toes in the frigid Atlantic.  The mist had stopped and the fog had lifted a bit so it was quite enjoyable!  It's too bad we couldn't have spent more than 20 min there.

Well, it was on to Land's End and the very farthest west of Britain.  It was an amazing view!!  The low clouds actually added to the ambience in a great way.  But after 10 min we had to move on.  That's what we get for trying to squeeze in too much. Next on the agenda was St. Michael's Mount,  a small island just out from the south coast of Cornwall which has a church on it.  When the tide is low you can walk along a causeway out to the island from shore.  It's only about half a km.  When we got there only about half the causeway was clear of water so we got an ice cream cone(had to try the famous Cornish ice cream) and went for a little walk.  By this time it was around 5:30pm and we decided that we could only stop for dinner and nothing else before getting to our hotel as we had quite a few more kms to cover.  We ended up at The Hewas Inn for a pub dinner.  I had steak and Stilton pie while Reuben had fish and chips which we washed down with 2 local beers.  Quite delish! And then on to our hotel in the tiny fishing village of Polperro.  More about that tomorrow.