Bangkok Mafia (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Doom Bar Bitter is named after an infamous sandbank at the mouth of the Camel Estuary in north Cornwall. The Doom bar is at its most dangerous between low and high tides when it is submerged by just a few feet. Unsuspecting mariners can easily become stranded or in extreme weather shipwrecked. We’re still drowning in [...]
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Well it is nearly the summer holidays silly season so let's have a bit of light hearted fun shall we. This is a rare snap of one T blog whilst on holiday last year in Cornwall. If you look very closely you can see my house across the Camel estuary in Rock, earned from selling that first folio Shakespeare title I referred to in an earlier posting! Voted the best dressed man in Cornwall 2007 Tonbridge...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
I have recently returned from a holiday in Padstow Cornwall. Although I have been there before I had forgotten just how relaxed and quaint Padstow is. My better half and myself took our bikes so that we could ride along the well known 'Camel Trail' which passed right at the bottom of our holiday accommodation. I have a dodgy knee but managed to cycle all the way to Wadebridge and straight back ag
Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/03/2008
I’ve been coming to our family holiday home at Daymer Bay, on the Camel estuary, north Cornwall, all my life. The first time was in 1953, when my mother was pregnant with me. In fact, apart from the odd absence, such as when I was at university, I’ve spent more happy summers there than I care to remember – even though it was at least an eight-hour car journey from where we lived in St John’s Wood,...
