Tag: Botallack

  • A break in West Penwith

    A break in West Penwith

    We did manage to get away for a few days in Cornwall. The weather wasn’t marvellous, but it was just nice to get away and try and do something that resembled normality. That was when we walked along the coast from Pendeen to St Just – a coastal walk I love, as you may recall…

  • Botallack

    Botallack

    This is one of my very favourite places. As an early teenager living in Cornwall and interested in geology, I would often take off on my bike and wander around the spoil heaps and the cliffs around Botallack Mine looking for pieces of cassiterite, galena, pyrites and copper pyrites. I would spend the whole day…