There’s a fair bit of hype about St Ives and we were happily surprised to find the hype fully justified. Sheltered from the wind, with the sun glistening on the water and a blue sky in an otherwise cloudy day, St Ives is impossibly pretty. Despite the rain and wind elsewhere in Cornwall, at 7.30pm the sun was shining brightly in St Ives and we soaked in the warmth and beauty for the couple of hours we spent on the cobbled streets and harbor of this ancient town.