Cheer up Old Bean!

Leaving St Ives behind was difficult. It felt like a seaside town out of a fairytale, but alas we had so many things planned for the day we didn’t have the luxury of sitting at the cafe by the harbor drinking latte after latte. In my previous post I alluded to light food poisoning and how the choices we made in St Ives would come back to haunt me. Honestly, we should have skipped Penzance. We had been there before and it’s not so exciting that you need to see it more than once. I think we were both hoping that it would somehow be worth seeing with the better weather we were having this time around.     I will say this: it is worth seeing at least once if you find yourself in the area because the high street has the most unique sidewalks. The sidewalks sit quite a bit higher than the street below. You will find stairs leading from street level up to the sidewalks. I can only assume that this is because the streets flood or at least have a robust flow of water when it rains. Thi...