24th September - St Mawes Castle

24th September - St Mawes Castle, Porthleven, Penzance

A bit  cloudy today so we decided to take a drive down south to St Mawes.  We travelled through green pastures with stone fences and made our way down to the car ferry, across the river to St Mawes.  This was a lovely small village with a few small shops and a passenger ferry to take people across the water to Falmouth. We walked along the water and headed to St Mawes Castle right on the point of the coast.  This castle was one of King Henry VIII coastal fortresses.  It is round in structure and has a moat around the outside. It is 3 stories tall and the middle level has 5 cannons pointed out to sea. On the other headland opposite  stands Pendennis Castle, both of these castles were built to defend the land against enemy entering by sea.  The castle had nice green grass and gardens around the outside.  It was cool.  We walked back to the car and drove to Porthleven another small seaside village for some lunch at the Red Lion Pub it was 3pm and we were all starving.  We went down to the footy field and had a kick around with the soccer ball while mum did a little food shopping to top up our supplies.  We left Porthleven and drove down to Penzance to have a look at St Michaels Mount,  a castle on an island off the coast, took some photos and headed home.  Dad dropped mum and I off at the pub so that we could update our blog and check our emails for an hour, he saw a fox and nearly ran over a rabbit on the way back.  It was only 12 degrees so we lit the wood fire and watched the movie Troy on t.v.  A long but fun day!