Padstow and Boscastle

We’re still on holiday! Yippee. And it’s a rainy Monday morning. So by rights I should stay in bed feeling smug about all those poor commuters pouring down the M32 but my body clock obviously knew it was a Monday and turfed me out of bed long before my long suffering wife.

Today was Padstow day. Rick Stein owns half of Padstow, apparently. He’s got his orginal restaurant, a cookery school, a bistro, a café, and a fish and chip shop on the quay. I think he might also be considering a Rick Stein Roadside kebab van. We studied the menus on all his establishments and, after careful consideration of the prices, settled on his fish and chip shop. It may have been the cheapest but it still wasn’t cheap. Twenty quid for fish and chips for two. But it was the best fish and chips I have ever had. We had Gurnard and Hake.

Afternoon was Boscastle. This is the town that was flooded in August 2004 with 50 cars and 6 buildings being washed into the sea. Nineteen months later on and its nearly back to what it was. The tourist office is still in a portakabin, there’s a lot of building work going on but the tourist shops seem to be fully stocked with Cornish fudge and cream teas. And for some reason, there’s a museum of Witchcraft. And a couple of other pagan looking shops… And the locals seemed to have cloven hooves instead of feet...