Saturday 28 February 2015

Taking down the bunting...

Against all expectations, broadband speeds in rural Cornwall are blisteringly fast... so it was a matter of moments today to send a batch of photographs into the ether.

Bunting being taken down in the fishing village of Mevagissey...


Friday 27 February 2015

Looe at night...

Back in Cornwall after, oh, more than 40 years. I stayed the night in a small fishing town called Looe...


Wednesday 11 February 2015

Waterside living...

I spent a few hours at Port Solent, a new(ish) marina near Portsmouth. It seems to have all the right ingredients: boats, fancy waterside apartments, and ‘the Boardwalk’, which turns out to be an uninspiring collection of retailers and restaurants. Maybe the architects wanted to recreate a San Francisco vibe, a ‘Fisherman’s Wharf’ scenario. But the whole is less than the sum of the parts, and this pale pastiche was almost deserted. The boats sat at their moorings, a few people congregated in Wetherspoons, and less than a dozen people (including me) saw Boyhood at the nearby cinema…