Penzance

Penzance, UK

Penzance sits low and luminous on the edge of England, a sun-baked strip of pastel houses and granite quays curled around Mount’s Bay.

Penzance sits low and luminous on the edge of England, a sun-baked strip of pastel houses and granite quays curled around Mount’s Bay.The air smells of brine and frying fish, gulls wheel above a harbour where fishing boats bob beside day-trip skiffs bound for St Michael’s Mount or the Isles of Scilly.