Virtuoso Insights - August/September 2008 - (Page 60) the Perfect ending giants T 60 Virtuoso insights In the Land of he most westerly point of mainland England, Land’s End looms large in Cornish legend. It was here where young Jack, a farmer’s son during the days of King Arthur, heeded the challenge to slay Cormoran, a giant from nearby St. Michael’s Mount who was stealing the locals’ cattle. And just beyond its 200-foot-high granite cliffs is said to lie the lost land of Lyonesse, the Camelot of King Arthur legend. Many claim to have seen towers and church spires of the submerged kingdom rise from the ocean, while its fabled mountain peaks became what are now the Isles of Scilly. Today’s visitors to Land’s End tell colossal tales of crossing the spinetingling suspension bridge, walking along dramatic stretches of the 500-milelong Cornish Coastal Footpath — the longest continuous footpath in Britain — and, with a little help from Merlin, spotting Arthur and his Guinevere “happily-ever-aftering” in Camelot.
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