Simply Thimbles

We have an exchange student from Japan staying with us at the moment and one of the things that she wanted to see whilst here in Cornwall was the Minack theatre.  It's an open air theatre perched on the side of a cliff just a little way up the coast from Lands End near a little village called Porthcurno. T, Eldest, Youngest and I have never been to the Minack Theatre so we thought this would be a prime opportunity to put that right. We went to see Madam Butterfly. A very sad tale of betrayal and lost love.  Now, the play itself was pretty good.  I couldn't understand all the singing.  It was a bit high pitched and the sound kept dropping out if the actors moved away from centre stage, but that didn't really matter as you can pick up the general idea of what is going on by just watching. I can't really say that I was impressed by The Minack Theatre though.  There are signs as you enter the Theatre part which say that the site can be a bit dangerous.  If you e