Beautiful St. Ives, England

St. Ives (Cornish: Porth la), England, is a seaside town, civil parish and port, in Cornwall. It is a six hour drive southwest of London, near Land's End. A branch of the renowned Tate Museum, as well as the Barbara Hepworth Museum, an intriguing studio/home/garden that attracts visitors from around the world, are in St.Ives. With a population of only around 11,000, St.Ives has attracted many artists and writers throughout the years. Among them is Virginia Woolf, whose To The Lighthouse commemorated the lighthouse off the St.Ives shoreline. Woolf reflects in "Sketch of the Past," from Moments of Being [20]:
...I could fill pages remembering one thing after another. All together made the summer at St. Ives the best beginning to life imaginable.
Painter J.W.Turner, who left his collection of paintings to the Tate Museum, painted there, as did Piet Mondrian from overseas. Painter and Barbara Hepworth ex-husband Ben Nicholson lived for years in St. Ives as well. Daphne DuMaurier wrote Frenchman's Creek and Rebecca while living in Cornwall. Jamaica Inn, a stagecoach stop established in the 1750s, located in nearby Altarnun, Cornwall, was the inspiration for DuMaurier's novel by that name. There is a yearly Daphne DuMaurier festival in close-by town, Fowey (pronounced Foy). The following photos are of popular hotel Pedn Olva, with more posts of the lovely port city in days to come.View from Pedn Olva room.
Seal playing in the water, seen from the hotel dining room.
Pedn Olva hotel.
Till tomorrow,
Love, Maia