Cornwall

It's a fair time since I last visited Cornwall and somehow what stuck in my mind were childhood memories of crawling through Okehampton. Well it now has a bypass, indeed the A30 was fast and quiet and I was soon well into the county at the end of England. First destination was Padstow, small village made well known by TV chef Rick Stein, whose presence is just about everywhere- a seafood restaurant with celebrity prices to match, a hotel and bistro, a seafood cookery school, a deli, a patisserie and a fish and chip shop. I joined the queue for cod, avoiding the more exotic fish available- though I'd like to try sometime. First a queue to pay, then a ten minute queue for the fish to fry to order. It was just a little dry for my taste.