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Land’s End

Looking for any excuse to escape London, we took the train to Penzance at the first sign of a heatwave and walked the Land’s End section of the South West Coast Path. I was retracing my steps from six years earlier, when I’d first hiked the path.

Sea fog drifts across a rocky Atlantic beach

Two hikers scramble between black coastal rocks above turquoise water

Ancient standing stones beneath a blue sky and a pale moon

A yellow tent beneath rocks in coastal fog

A sleeping bag beneath an orange shelter in sea fog

A swimmer showers outside above the bay

Two people read beside the window of a coastal cottage

Clothes dry outside a dark wooden cottage beside the sea

The evening coast seen through the cottage window

A cottage glows against a violet Atlantic dusk