One of the walks on the
All roads... TV show ended up at the little port of
Mousehole (above). This is an incredibly picturesque little village around a nearly semi-circular harbour and I stayed there just recently for the wedding of one of the crew members of Aeolus, the classic yacht I sailed in
Fowey earlier this year.
I won't try to explain how to pronounce its name as every time I tried I was told I got it wrong - but will go as far as to say it is not a combination of the words "mouse" and "hole".
One of its claims to fame was it was destroyed by the Spanish in the years after the
Armada, which coincidentally I am reading about at the moment. But if it is a more recent construction (by which I mean post 1595!) it is still very pretty:
For those rowers out there, yes it has a rowing club too:
Well worth a visit if you find yourself at the far end of Cornwall.
