Nights like these leave me thrilled, so glad to be alive, and feeling that I could take on anything. I drove for hours to get to the Far West today. I had a little sleep at Lamorna, to the west of the Cove, after visiting Maik Voswinkel’s gang staying at Cove House. Sleep suffused with [...]
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Wild weather and crab in our bellies!
In just a few days since Wednesday we’ve seen the most amazing range of weather. Wednesday itself. Drove through snow in Birmingham to get to Tregiffian and have lunch in the garden in tee shirt and shorts. Thursday. Biblical rains! Flooding all over the place and we had some touch and go times in Gwen, [...]
What Is Beauty?
After I wrote the blog below about winter holidays in Cornwall it got me thinking about the things we love, what we might consider beautiful, be it music, a picture, a scene, and that got me questioning how much of our perception of beauty is conditioned. Let’s consider that love of winter. When I was [...]
An amazing place for a winter break.
A prospective guest asked me yesterday to send through some additional photos that would give him an idea of how Cornwall looks in the winter. That was an easy request! I love being in Cornwall through the winter, you feel so in touch with what feels like a more real version of life. When I [...]
Winter holidays in West Cornwall.
After an amazing week up a Spanish mountain I was wondering how I’d feel about being back at Gwenver, in the simple scenery I know and love. I need not have worried though. We’re staying in Myn Tea this week, taking the first opportunity in ages to be there. The beauty of a few days here [...]
Dolphins, sharks, seals, all passing Gwenver today.
A gorgeous day at Tregiuffian, warm from the outset, and with an eerie mists that came and went, shrouding at times the sea, and at times the land. At Mayon Cliff there were crowds watching first a small pod of dolphins passing, and then a number of basking sharks. There was a canoeist tracking them [...]
A great guests’ album from New Forge Cottage
Often people will will write after their holidays and tell me how they took some fabulous photographs of West Cornwall while they were staying at Tregiffian. Ace photographer J from Julian Marment Photography stayed at New Forge with his family earlier in August and has just posted his first of two albums on his blog. This link [...]
Tregiffian, Sennen, and Gwenver. 15 May, in pictures.
Early, well, certainly before breakfast: Fast forward to early evening, on the way back from The Old Success, Sennen. Do click on this one, it looks great at size. Guesses anyone… And home again. Feet up. Balcony. Myn Tea.
Brits abroad miss home after four days…
I love days when there is no news. The programmes still need to fill their time and the more esoteric articles they are sent have a chance of getting air time. Last weekend was a beauty. Apparently Brits on holiday abroad start to miss home after 4 days and 14 hours! We supposedly miss our [...]
Shed working. The Cornish Way.
No matter where you might be, you still need moeny to get by. Today I considered my way of going about earning said crust was a most pleasurable one. The shed/studio was build just after we finished New Forge Cottage, but until now I had no broadband there and so it ended up being a [...]
