Unwound
Gaucho has been off unwinding in Cornwall with his girlfriend and a bunch of mates. He’s so relaxed that he’s talking about himself in the third person. It was part break, part extended cream tea eating marathon. Oh those cream teas. Sheer cliffs of buttery goodness, solid cakes of stodge with a sugary goo that satisfies utterly, with only perhaps a slightly queasy walk home.
I didn’t recieve a single mobile call during my whole trip. Whether this means I am a person who does not recieve calls, or someone who had warned potential callers that I was out of town, I don’t know. Perhaps it was just that I did not recieve any calls during this 10 day period, and that is that.
We visited the Eden Project, which turns out to be just another botanical garden, although it is quite a large one. The highlight of the trip for me however was the Bedruthan Steps. This is a large cove and beach that is hidden by water at high tide, but reveals itself in all its pristine glory when the tide goes out. Visitors must negotiate some very steep steps to get onto the beach, but then they find sand devoid of human footsteps, still dripping caves and banks of sea-shells that softly hiss. It had the astonishing freshness that Adam must have felt on the first day, or perhaps the first fortnight.