King Aurthur's Castle

Before leaving Cornwall on Monday we made a stop at Tintagel Castle aka King Aurthur's Castle and Merlins Cave. This ended up being one of my favorite places we saw during our trip. It was also one of our hardest too. I don't know how many miles we walked because most if it was up and down uneven surfaces, steep climbs and rocky terrain but it was so worth it.

In the parking lot we saw this camper van.

I had never seen anything like it before. 

Flower power!

Grazing Cows.

From the parking lot we passed several rock walls and hedges.

Look at that design!

Kind of pretty! 

After walking a mile from town we finally arrived at the entrance. We then walked another steep 1/2 mile down to where all the fun began.  Behind me and down some stairs is the entrance to Merlin's Cave. 

Inside Merlin's cave. 

Adjacent to Merlin's Cave on the beach is a beautiful waterfall.

Standing on the beach and trying to take it all in. This is most definetley not what we see on our beaches in California. 

Kids would have loved to explore here! All the little caves to play in. 

After I got my "fill" of the ocean waves we started our climb up! 

Midway we came upon the beginning of the many ruins. 

From these ruins up and up we went!

What I hoped was more than half way up I took a picture of just a portion of what we had already walked up!

Up and up we kept going. The platform in the picture below is where we were standing when I took the above picture. If we hung a left it took us up to more ruins of the castle. We hung a right and went up and up and up to get to the statue of King Arthur!

And we finally made it to the top!

Pretty awesome!

So beautiful.

After catching our breathe and just taking the beauty in we began our descend down, down, down!

We finally made it down to the bottom. The whole trail you are surrounded by beauty!

A pretty little stream running downhill. 

After leaving King Aurthor's we finished our journey to Bristol.

That night we were hungry and Kory was wanting Tai. After a few google searches we came upon a restaurant named Giggling Squid. 

It was so good to see my red curry sauce looked very similar to what we have back home.  

So yummy!

 Walking back to our car where we had to park in a designated parking lot we passed a park with this phone booth. It had been painted for a charity event in 2013. After the event it had been moved to the Windsor Castle to be on display. After being there for a bit it is now being moved from park to park as an Art piece. Pretty cool to be able to see and touch it. It still amazes me that we have seen so little graffiti. It's awesome to see the respect shown in Scotland and England.  I'm afraid if this art piece was back home, in a park with no security it wouldn't last long! Which really is so sad!