Chin-Wag Part 2: Tintagel

Hello are you there? Okay I will tell you about Tintagel. The cliffs are hard to get to and you will have to carry your backpack to the hostel so pack light and maybe exercise so you will be ready. The cliffs are very steep and if you take pictures they look like they are from a helicopter even though you are only standing on the ground. I would say you can see for miles but since it is in England I should say kilometers. There is a cave called Merlin's cave and I stole a magic rock from it that I will show you but not let you keep when I get back. Merlin was trapped in the cave by a girl he loved who did not love him back. He is not there anymore or else he did not respond to his name when I yelled it or maybe he is just old or too sad about the girl to talk which could happen.

There are fields that smell like cow poop so be careful where you sit to read unless you like the smell of cow poop or the wind is blowing the other direction or you are too lazy to walk far. Even if you read Hamlet you will not feel alone and that is why Tintagel is a good place. On one cliff you can see fields far away and the beach far below and the sun set over the ocean. After a while the seagulls will fly real close to you and ants will crawl on the same rock you sit on because they trust you. If you watch the ants and trace the lines in the rocks carefully there is as much to see there as in the whole sky and all the blowing grass and the beach. Waves hitting the rocks is a peaceful sound until the sun sets and then it is like moaning but it is getting cold and you should head back anyway.

Late at night you should go to the graveyard. Bring other people too because it is dark and you get lost easy and you want to be friends with them. Be very quiet when you creep past the old bus with the gypsy girl who was playing recorder earlier because now her friends are there for a bonfire and they might be dangerous and it is more fun to sneak. At the graveyard there will be one candle flickering inside the chapel that you can see through a slat in the door and if you are brave you will find an open window and crawl inside and kneel on the stone floor and pray in front of the candle but I am not brave so I don't know if there are ghosts or thieves waiting in there. It is important to stand on top of a stone wall and quote as much poetry as you know to the graves and the moon and the people you are with. Your friends might recite poetry too and the cold wind will make you shiver and the grass will rustle like it is shivering too and be sure to walk back holding at least one friend close because it is more dark than when you left and you don't have a flashlight and even the gypsy has gone to sleep so it must be a bad time of night.

I'm finished talking about Tintagel at least for now.