Love art? Love Woolf? Love a beach vacation? Visit St. Ives.

Seven years ago, I spent a delectable two days in the Cornwall town where Virginia Woolf spent her summers as a child. I still dream of going back. It truly is a magical place.

Today’s piece in The Daily Mail will give you lots of details about art on display, art lessons, and other sights in St. Ives.

Places to see include:

• Talland House, where Woolf spent her summers until she was 12 years old
• Godrevy Lighthouse, featured in To the Lighthouse
• Tate St Ives
• Harbour Bookshop, where you can find monographs from Cecil Woolf Publishers’ Bloomsbury Heritage Series
• Katherine Hill-Miller, author of From the Lighthouse to Monk’s House: A Guide to Virginia Woolf’s Literary Landscapes, advises taking the walk to Tren Crom, one Virginia made many times with her father and family. The route is in her book.

I also recommend browsing in the local charity shops. At St. Julia’s Hospice Charity Shop, I found treasures ranging from a collection of German hiking staff shields to framed prints of the English countryside to books with full-color photos of English sites — all for a pittance.

For more on St. Ives, read:

Seeing St. Ives and London in Woolf’s time

Spring break on the beach at St. Ives