12 September 2018:
Falmouth, UK:
Land’s End in England

By Corey Sandler

We’re back in Cornwall and the town of Falmouth, a place of naval and shipping significance and one of the hotbeds of the English version of a calzone.

Cornwall forms the southwestern tip of the mainland of Great Britain. It has a significant maritime history as one of the first ports of call from far away.

We were last here at the end of June aboard Silver Wind, and not much has changed since then. Or in the past century or two, for that matter.

Falmouth is one of the prime sources of a folded dough with stuffing: the Cornish Pasty, which was one of the original fast foods. Fillings including “swede”, which some people call turnip but is actually a yellow turnip or rutabaga. To that is added meat or seafood or just about anything.

And please call it a PASS-TEE.

A PAYS-TEE is something completely different, not ordinarily seen on the streets of Cornwall.

I decided to spend my morning on a photographic exercise looking for parts of the whole: architectural details. Here is some of what I saw.

The last photo, of the 18th century Pennycomequick Pub, sent me on a search for the story behind the name.

I was hoping for something exciting or naughty. Alas, I found the name to be a corruption of an old Cornish phrase,  Pen y cwm coet, meaning head of a wooded valley. Still, the mind can wander…

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