Last weekend was the first venture out on the kayak. We got wet, we broke stuff, bobbed on the water a bit, and had a thoroughly great time. Back in my teens I canoed a fair bit, and even achieved a basic canoeing instructors qualification – likely expired. My old canoe – appropriately named Green [...]
In a minibus of expectant absinthe professionals, I watch inside and out as we climb into the mountain mists. Towns give way to farms. Farms give way to forest. Forest to the restaurant at the end of the road*. Literally at the end of the road. We cannot see far for the deep fog all [...]
The BBC recently ran a series of programmes under the title “Sea Fever”, which, as you can guess, were all focused on the sea and the British relationship with it. One gem in this great series was “Wrecking Season“, programme about Cornwall-based playwright and beachcomber Nick Darke (now deceased – and sadly, the programme is [...]
There’s no way a visit to one of our local towns is going to pass without lunch at our favourite cafe and a visit to the fishmonger. Today I picked up a couple of fresh Mackerel. How fresh? I’m pretty sure these guys were pulled from the sea this very morning (with hook and line by the [...]
It’s a Saturday. Saturdays require dragging ourselves out and about for a little adventure. Today is a visit to nearby Strangles beach. Strangles is not the beach to expect floods of holiday lobsters soaking up the sun. The nearest parking – little more than a country lane lay-by – is perhaps a rugged half mile [...]
