Camelot and back again in a Morgan Three Wheeler
King Arthur’s Tintagel is fairly local to us so an early morning Sunday run to clear the cobwebs with some salted ram air seemed a good idea. Rumbling through Tintagel in a Morgan Three Wheeler at early o’clock I noticed more tourists than previous September’s, even so, autumn has definitely arrived. So a quick pause at the reputed birthplace of King Arthur then home along the coast road in time for lunch before the Emmets stir.
Emmet is the old English word for ant – Cornish dialect|pejorative) A tourist.
Morgan Three Wheeler – King Arthurs Castle
idylls of the King
Following the publication of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King in 1859 Victorians flocked to Tintagel and in 1899 the hotel overlooking the ruins opened. The Camelot Castle Hotel is now owned and run jointly by the Mappin family and the artist Ted Stourton. I had met Ted some years previously while having coffee at the hotel waiting for a winter storm to pass.
From a distance his Jaguar artwork looks very similar to the M3W Popbangcolour we saw at the Morgan factory (inset). They always seem very friendly here if somewhat eccentric.
L Ron Hubbard would be proud of them (even though he himself was barking)
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Photos taken with kind permission of Camelot Castle Hotel
Westmog - Morgan Three Wheeler 