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best impression of it was gained from the castle.

Tintagel itself consists of one short street, but the houses are very sweet and unpretentious. Most of them are built onto remains of castles and their gardens are partly enclosed by the remants of the high old walls in which there are peep holes.


July 3, 1908

Thursday afternoon we left Tintagel in a wagonette crowed with passengers and their luggage for Boscastle a few miles off, where we changed to the coach for Bude. The drive on the whole was rather  monotinous except for the delicious swelling hay and clover fields. Although Bude was an exceedingly uninteresting stopping point we were forced to spend the night in order to take the coach for Clovelly the next morning. The second part of the drive passed through the same sort of country until we entered Deonshire, where it gradually became more interesting and the trees grew more plentifully. By going down a hill and turning around a corner, all of a sudden the coach stops at the top of a steeper hill and you are surprised to hear the driver say, "we have reached Clovelly".  [[strikethrough]] Then he [[/strikethrough]]