There is a magical walk in England along one of the most scenic routes in all the land. Some have even gone so far as to call it the most beautiful coastline in all of the Kingdom. And it is, truly it is the most beautiful because you are high up and lost in all that is blissful. High up in the sky, high about the sea, high about the trainline. The train is trapped because you and the deep blue clear sea down below, banked by the softest white sand and on a summer’s day, all beneath the bluest summer sky.
The walk between Carbis bay and St Ives has to be the most enchanting thing to do whilst there. Walking the pilgrim’s way, entrenched in your thoughts or company, waiting for the train to come whistling by beneath you and watching all of life unfold below. Children at the beach, bird mamas and their babies on the waterbed, seasons and homes along the way. It is one long winding lane not much of an incline but some. The beach at Carbis Bay is easy and flat, not much rock formation outside of the lizard’s head that surrounds it, it is truly one of a kind whilst the one at St Ives has some rugged terrain but it is part of the village itself so there’s more to do here than in Carbis Bay.
You almost get the beach to yourself in the Bay but in St Ives it’s the atypical English seaside town, complete with a lighthouse and harbour. Look up whilst down below at the beach in Carbis Bay for the train whooshing past and look out the window on the train from St Ives back to Carbis Bay that that most beautiful scenery unfolding. Its special, truly special. And on a scorching week ahead we are have been promised, its perfect.