In the run-up to the General Election, you may feel like getting away from it all. How about a pilgrimage to the land of the Minack Chronicles?
In the days of the New Testament, so I have been told, a journey 'to the ends of the earth' meant a voyage from the Holy Land to Cornwall. Surprisingly, the southern edge of this county, around Lamorna Cove, still boasts a haven of peace and tranquillity between the two tourist attractions of Land's End and St. Michael's Mount.
Simplicity
Armed only with vague directions from one of his books, I recently walked the winding lanes there in search of the author Derek Tangye. With his wife Jeannie, he left the stressful life of a London journalist over 40 years ago, exchanging a fashionable home by the Thames for a tiny, rented farm cottage with a tin roof.
