Tue 23 Mar 2021
Thin Places #1
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Merlin’s Cave, Tintagel, Cornwall, Spring 2004
The village of Tintagel from Tintagel Castle, Spring 2004
9th c. monk cells, Tintagel Castle, Spring 2004
Tintagel: The thing is, if you go to the village it’s full of King Arthur tat and rather crass about it. But if you climb up to the island itself (and in 2004 you had no alternative but to climb an enormous staircase to get there) it’s a pretty magical place. Maybe it was endorphins from the climb, but I found it exhilarating. And after all, thin places are always a personal thing. You can’t find them for anyone else and no one else can find them for you. They exist solely between you and the landscape.
