Cornwall's Newquay is the new Surf City
Believe it or else, Cornwall, southwest England's formerly staid seaside paradise where time stood still, has morphed into a super-cool surfing destination for the Hipsters of Europe. There goes the nice old 'backwater' reputation that made me love to visit. Sorry, my age is showing, but I love the old-timey tea places, sitting on a cliffside veranda sipping a G&T, listening to the pensioners talk about last night's bingo game. But now we have to share the landscape with Prince William and his ilk, endure the trendification of the old seamen's pubs, and steer around human wreckage from the infamous British hen and stag parties that litter resort towns 'at' weekends.
My own tastes run to seeing what's on at the Tate St. Ives, the ultra-way-cool satellite of London's Tate Gallery, and its neighbor, the Barbara Hepworth museum. Her former home, its stunning sculpture garden is food for the soul.
Ah, Cornwall. We'll be traveling there this autumn, then again in the spring, to savor these and other sites like King Arthur's legendary Tintagel, and the Eden Project and some other magnificent gardens.
Join us.
Believe it or else, Cornwall, southwest England's formerly staid seaside paradise where time stood still, has morphed into a super-cool surfing destination for the Hipsters of Europe. There goes the nice old 'backwater' reputation that made me love to visit. Sorry, my age is showing, but I love the old-timey tea places, sitting on a cliffside veranda sipping a G&T, listening to the pensioners talk about last night's bingo game. But now we have to share the landscape with Prince William and his ilk, endure the trendification of the old seamen's pubs, and steer around human wreckage from the infamous British hen and stag parties that litter resort towns 'at' weekends.My own tastes run to seeing what's on at the Tate St. Ives, the ultra-way-cool satellite of London's Tate Gallery, and its neighbor, the Barbara Hepworth museum. Her former home, its stunning sculpture garden is food for the soul. Ah, Cornwall. We'll be traveling there this autumn, then again in the spring, to savor these and other sites like King Arthur's legendary Tintagel, and the Eden Project and some other magnificent gardens.
Join us.
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