Invading Tintagel
by Elodie_Caroline
Well, this is sad to say, but my favourite part of this trip, was buying myself a Viking helmet and sword, out of one of the many gift shops.
Whilst I was sitting and having my coffee, a couple of French students came walking along in front of me, and one of them was wearing this luscious viking helmet. I have always loved the legends of the vikings, right from when I was about 6 years old. So I wanted a helmet like this too! The four of us went mooching through the shops until I found what my little heart desired; as soon as I'd bought it, it went straight onto my head, then I found a sword to go with it too!
It didn't bother me none, walking around Tintagel, with my viking helmet on and brandishing my sword. Simon dared me to wear it when we left Tintagel and were going for our cream tea, so I did!
Tintagel Post Office
by Elodie_Caroline
For myself, my husband, my sister and her husband, we liked this building the best of all at Tintagel. It's the old Post Office, which is no longer used as a P.O, and it's the most crooked little place that you could ever see. It is now owned by the National Trust, thankfully, otherwise council officials would be saying that this building doesn't reach the council's high standards and they would have it torn down.
Views from Tintagel castle
by Elodie_Caroline
So this is the views that you would get if you lived in Tintagel castle, quite pretty now and again and would be wonderful in thunderstorms, or when the sea was rough. But it's not the kind of place I would want to live, to be quite honest.
Looking at this though, and remember all of those awful steps, how on earth did Uther Pendragon and his ilk ever get up to Tintagel castle, it's not like they had good rock climbing gear in those days, is it. Come to think of it, did Igraine, Arthur's mother, spend her whole pregnancy indoors? She wouldn't have been able to get up and down to the castle, with a great big lump in front of her, would she.
Tintagel Castle - The Island Courtyard
by illumina
At the top of the extremely steep steps leading up to the island section of the castle, you reach a battlemented wall with a gate through it. This was actually built by the local vicar in 1852, to replace the original 13th century wall which had fallen down the cliff behind it, along with one end of the Great Hall. To the right of the path you will see the service rooms belonging the far end of this Great Hall, while to the left, backed up against the steep grass slope are the remains of a two-roomed building with a flight of steps up the nearer wall towhere there was once an upper floor. This may have been a private chamber, intended for the use of the Earl on his rare visits to Tintagel.
Tintagel Castle - the 'Iron Gate'
by illumina
If you walk though the archway in the famous battlemented wall that is most often seen in photographs of Tintagel, a path to the right leads down to the Iron Gate - a defended rock-wharf where ships could be tied up in calm weather.
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Old Castle ruins
Tintagel views - castle ruins in the distance
Terrible desserts
Irina's Restaurant
