Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Goths, soporific seaweed, sea fog and the poetry of place names

And we're off...

Land's End was eerily still and fog-bound this morning. A siren hooted through the mist.

To save time, please take it as a given that all that followed today was corrugated in the extreme.

Coffee stop in Penzance in the friendly and super-cool Exchange Gallery, where another kind lady forced a donation on me.

Gradually the mist lifted and a sapphire sky emerged as I puffed through and near villages, distinctive to my eye and ear for their splendidly evocative names: Blowinghouse, Praze-an-Beeble, Joppa, Relubbers, Numphra, Treen, Polgigga...

A long whoosh down to Perranporth, basking in afternoon sunshine. Fascinating to observe the holiday outfits chosen by many. Though no trendster oneself, one can't help the occasional: 'What were you thinking?'

No temptation to surf here in Newquay. Me in a wetsuit? What was he thinking?

And, should you wish to listen, here's today's podcast. Yesterday's should play immediately afterwards. Can't master the tech to get them the correct way around!


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