Hello from Bude England.  I got here yesterday.  The weather has been stormy, so I couldn't finsh the hike all the way from Padstow to Bude.  I am at a nice hoostel here rtun by a family, and the re are alot of surfers in Bude.  I have no roomates at the time.  There are people here from Mexico and parts of the UK, alot of Austrialian accents.  In Tintagel a few days ago I went to an Arthurian Center that was designed by a man who made quite a bit of money selling powdered instant custard.  He started the center after WW1 in hopes of creating peace.  It was filled with beuautifull stained glass windows depicting some of the crests of the some of the knights of the rtound table.  I got a coppy of Mark Twains "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court".  I am reading that along with a book written sometime around the 13th century by Geffory of Monmouth "A History of the kings of Brittan" which is a ficticious account of the history of Brittan orrginally wrtitten in Latin.  I have decided to change my travel plans a little and instead of going to Bristol, which is a big city in southern England in the Devon district, I am going to spend the time in the Breacon Beacon area of Wales before sailing to Ireland on Valentines Day.  I remember hearing that Breacon Beacons got its name from the Beacon fires that the Brittans used to lite on top of the Mountain to warn other  Brittans of the encroaching English.  The pictures below are from Tintagel Castle in TIntagel.  Tintagel comes from the Cornish words "Din Tagel" which means something along the lines of "fortress of the narrow intrance"  Probably because of its being precariously built on a headland (a rock portruding out into the ocean) with only a narrow bridge and path leading to the gate.  In old times it was a major port of trading for Cornish Tin and spices from the east brought in on ships which docked along the Eastern Side of the headland.

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