Did you know that the southernmost point of the UK is a rocky islet with the rather unwieldy name of Pednathise Head? You didn't? Well, we hadn't given it a thought either until, in a lightbulb moment, we set ourselves a challenge of visiting Britain's extreme points: north, south, east and west.
June found us at the barren, rain-lashed, northern tip of the island of Unst in Shetland. Now, early in September, we were on a little boat in brilliant sunshine, watching seals basking on remote outcrops beyond the Isles of Scilly. It had been an interesting year…
Our journey south in wall-to-wall sunshine made us wish we hadn't neglected to repair our motorhome's defunct air-con. By the second day we were at Land's End.
Land's End isn't one of our extreme points (it isn't really anything except the opposite corner of the country from John o’ Groats, where we had been earlier).
We thought John o’ Groats had been exploited a little, but even the Lonely Planet guide suggests you pass up on the ‘tacky multimedia shows’ of the Land's End Landmark complex, pay the parking fee and take the clifftop walk to Sennen Cove instead. Have you ever paid £10 to park
