Go To Fowey At Once

That's an order :-D

As you can probably tell, I'm having a fantastic day off. I've just met up with an old friend from Uni, Lewis Wilkinson, and we had an excellent lunch at Tempo's Cafe in St Austell: I recommend their chocolate frappes!

I didn't really get to see much of Cornwall considering I was down here for three years studying in Falmouth, but anyone will tell you that the place becomes a lot easier to visit if you have this wonderful thing called an automobile. So what was going to be just a visit to Fowey turned into a nice detour at a delightful village called Charlestown, which has a working port, some excellent tall ships, a nice pebbly beach, and a 50's-style orange milkfloat that I would happily have bought for some ridiculous amount of money :-)

So yes, it's certainly been a delightful day. And if you find yourself in the coastal port of Fowey (which is delightful both for its narrow lanes, pretty shops and its general ambience), I sincerely recommend that you visit Pinky Murphy's cafe: there's a link to them here. Excellent atmosphere, friendly staff, and a decent taste in music; Electric Light Orchestra was just on the CD player. Yay!

All we need now is an economic boom, eh?

Thanks for reading!

The Evening Stanners

Exploration For The Nation!

Hello again! Busy times at the hostel: we've had meteor showers, thunderstorms, double rainbows, and baby rabbits in the garden. Though not necessarily in that order.

Anyway! Places I'm visiting very shortly:

1) St Austell
2) Fowey
3) Polruan
4) Golant
5) Par
6) Newquay

All in Cornwall, yay! Such an AWESOME county, which is kind of awkward when you're trying to promote the virtues of Devon. Oh well. Visit Coasters in Kingsbridge! There you are, that should do it :-)

More updates to come tomorrow people! Good times :-D

The Evening Stanners

PS Ed Balls says he'd like to meet me. Well come to Salcombe YHA then, 'cos I'm sure as heck not going all the way to Plymouth to hear you slag off the Milibands et al...