Well well well, this post has certainly been a long time
coming! And unfortunately for no good reason! I was trying to make the photos
look super impressive and arty but...I’m just not good at that kind of thing,
so instead this is going to be a simple “food porn” post with lots of pictures
for you to look at, bare and beautiful, with no editing at all.
I’ll intersperse some of the groups of pictures with my
comments and anecdotes/reviews from the holiday. Enjoy!
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Cornwall – perhaps my favourite place on the planet! (Though
it could be improved greatly by only being 20mins from the centre of London,
haha.)
Cornwall has so much to offer and as a result my family and
I have been visiting the county for years. I’ve been on almost every beach, and
round every national park, I’ve been to Flambards multiple times as well as the
Dairy and Cider farms, Poldark mine and much much more! But...I still feel like
there’s so much more to explore!
This year for me, unsurprisingly it was all about the food.
Despite looking a little bit crazy, I took plenty of pictures of what I scoffed,
so here is my holiday, in food. A taste of Cornwall.
Firstly, my family has a rather special little tradition which unsurprisingly
involves food, but most excitingly for me, involves breakfast! Now I NEVER eat
breakfast, and I mean never, except when I’ve been in a car for 7 hours and
have just arrived in Cornwall...
Because my hometown is so far away from Cornwall, our plan
of action is always to drive through the night. We leave home at roughly
1:30am, drive for 6-7 hours and arrive in the town of Perranporth sometime
after 7:30am a little tired and very hungry.
Perranporth is always our first stopping point, and for one
very good reason known as The Dolphin Cafe. Bright blue, and adorned with all
sorts of dolphin paraphernalia, the Dolphin open super early so that holiday
makers like ourselves can have the best fry up Cornwall has to offer, complete
with stunning views of Perranporth beach.
It really is the best way to start a holiday.
This next batch of photos comes from a rather lovely pub
which is perched right on the headland at West Pentire overlooking Crantock
beach and out to sea. The pub is steeped in history, with plenty of smugglers
stories to tell!
Crantock is by far our favourite part of Cornwall, and it
has our favourite beach, so we were extremely excited to be staying just a
cliff walk away, right next to the Bowgie Inn. We’ve eaten (and drunk) here
many a time, so it seemed fitting we came here for our first nights dinner.
Here you can see the smoked seafood salad I enjoyed. It
included mackerel, salmon trout and mussels fresh from the smokehouse at St
Mawes alongside salad leaves, beetroot, and a homemade potato salad, coleslaw
and vinaigrette!
One of the things I had hoped to do on holiday was go on
some sort of foraging walk or even a mini course but unfortunately there was
just too much to fit in! However, we did go for a lovely early morning walk
along the headland of West Pentire round to Porth Joke (Polly Joke to the
locals) where I saw a number of yummy edibles along the way, including
blackberries, dandelions and mushrooms!
(Don’t panic, I know nothing about mushrooms and definitely
didn’t try any, and I don’t recommend you do unless you are foraging with a
professional!)
After feeling rather good about ourselves after our brisk
morning walk, we ruined it by indulging in “Breakfast Cream Tea” – something which
became all too much of a common occurrence!
