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Thanks Greg! I'm hoping the place names make up for the lack of photos (trying to get my camera repaired this week). Pasties are fantastic and now make up about 40% of our diet. We visited one local shop enough now they've started giving us vouchers for free ones.
2 years agoHaha, they do indeed! We'll be there singing along in May. Apparently this tradition is genuinely old (some of them, like Morris dancing, were re-invented in Victorian times). Lots of Spring-worshiping fertility dances in English villages!
2 years agoI'm enjoying your interesting dispatches from Cornwall, and those are definitely some great place names. I'm hoping to see you showcase of one of my favorite foods on earth--the Cornish Pasty.
2 years agoWait a minute. The dress up like vegetables? And sing that song? Oh my. Proof positive that England is a place apart. I love it!!
2 years agoHaha, thanks Scott, yeah I'd thought I'd got away from the war footage and all that mud brought it back to me. The camera's a right pain, seems to be a focus fault common to that model. It's done it before but "sorted itself out" after a few days - not so this time...
2 years agoCourageous ride, one where you could imagine yourself slogging through Ukraine’s mud in sympathy with them. Sorry about your camera!
2 years agoYep, wouldn't like to be out at sea in such conditions. Normally there are quite a few big ships (and surfers), but they must have either stayed well away from shore or hunkered down somewhere (not the surfers). I did keep saying to myself "well this is jolly fresh" as the wind threatened to blow me over...
2 years agoHaha, for sure - it won't be the first time I've needed bailing out (and doubtless won't be the last). I have only myself to blame, too, as our neighbour remarked when I told him my plans just before I left that the trains might not be running. I was still sort of surprised when they were *all* cancelled though.
2 years agoCheers Rich! I've made up for it by not leaving the side of the fire the rest of the weekend. Cornwall really does excel itself with the place names - the odd thing is you start to take them for granted (I passed through a place called Goonbell and Merry Meeting and failed to mention it...)
2 years agoThanks Scott - yep it was a bit of an exciting one. While there are definitely more storms like this down here than back East, I'm not sure/I hope we don't see one like this again for a while. I was sort of hoping for an excuse to ride in it!
2 years agoCheers Kathleen, glad you enjoyed it! I really excelled myself (in foolhardiness) this time. On the drive back my ears were ringing with the wind, my eyes were bloodshot from all the air/sand/hail that had been blown into them and I even managed to dehydrate myself. No bruises from toppling over though, so I'm calling that a win!
2 years agoGreat to have a loving partner to bail you out Jon!
2 years agoKathleen beat me to it. I had exactly the same thought. Loving the place names, too. Glad you’re home and dry.
2 years agoQuite the adventure! Glad you made it home safely. I was thinking of you when I saw this storm was heading your way, so thanks for the fine on-the-scene reporting.
2 years ago
Don't worry about the lack of pictures. I like words better.
2 years agoI'm very impressed that you've embraced the Cornish pasty culture. Pasties are very rare in the U.S. and I'd estimate 95% of the population has never even heard of such a thing. I'm a little embarrassed to toot my own horn, but I have a little cooking blog and in one of my posts I explained my personal relationship to pasties.
I also made a batch of my own. Here it is should you be interested:
https://chefgcooks.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-magnificent-pasty-upper-michigans.html