Visiting Cornwall at the end of this month?

[lethargic_man]

The year is beginning draw towards a close, and I (but not my girlfriend) have four days of leave from work still unused. I've been thinking for a while I want to visit Cornwall before I leave this country,* as I've never been.† I appreciate I've left it a bit late in the year for this‡, so I think I probably ought to bite the bullet of expensive train fares and go before this month is out, as I suspect tourism there in the winter will be less than fun.

Would anyone reading this like to go there with me on a mini-break the last week in October? And does anyone who has been there before have any suggestions as to what to see, or whether going in late October is a really bad idea, or whether I can get by there without hiring a car?

* Possibly with only three of those days, keeping the last day back in case I need it for something else.

† Or at least, not since I was born!

‡ This is because I've been too busy organising Grassroots Jews and Succos meals to have had time to organise this too.

Comments

[green_knight]

We went earlier this year (May/June) for a couple of days and spent one day mainly inside museums because the weather was just so lousy that we bailed out early.

No idea about the carless thing, but it's probably no worse than the rest of the country.

We went specifically to visit the Eden Project, which was well worth seeing, and which is definitely equipped with good public transport links.; Dartmoor should also be reachable, at least there seems to be a lot of provision for walkers. Other places, particularly further towards the edge, might be harder - I remember that Tintagel was at the end of nowhere, and Mount St. Michael and the Lizard are probably similarly difficult.