Land’s End, Cornwall, late one afternoon in August 2013. I couldn’t have been further west, not on the English mainland, but my plan had just gone south.
Having taken the family on a trip to a tin mine, the idea had been to ‘break the journey’ to our holiday cottage by oh-so-casually ‘dropping in on’ Nanzijal Bay, filming location for the First Doctor’s penultimate adventure, The Smugglers (1966). “Breath of fresh. Stretch our legs,” I’d told my wife and children, cheerily. Some stretch – I’d neglected to mention that the bay can only be accessed by walking a mile or so along the cliff path from Land’s End. It’d be all right once we got there, I’d convinced myself…
Nick Griffiths, the author of Who Goes There.