This is such a surfer’s town, in spite of the fact that it’s
here in England. We’re overlooking beautiful Newquay beach, which had over 25
people out the back enjoying the excellent waves, I can only assume they either
don’t feel the cold, or have heated wetsuits.
We slept in this morning, meaning that there was actually
sunlight when were ventured out, so we took the opportunity to walk along the
cliffs to the headland to visit Rick Stein’s fish restaurant. It was lovely, a
fantastic view over the ocean, and I had some great fried Cod chips. Dogs are
more welcome here than in London, in pubs and restaurants they’re frequently
found lazing about with their owners, and here was no exception.
After a leisurely brunch we began the hunt for a place to
have Christmas lunch. Ah, what naïve sweet summer children we are. I had
naturally assumed that we could eat at our hotel on Christmas day, provided we
couldn’t book anywhere else, so it was only with mild disappointment that we
were told they were fully booked. Oh well, we thought, there’ll be plenty of
other places.
Wrong. So wrong. We spent our afternoon walking to every
single hotel, restaurant, takeaway and food outlet to be told one of three
things: We’re not open on Christmas day; we’re fully booked; try (insert place
here) and repeat the first or second phrase. Over twenty venues later, I
thought never mind, we can just get room service. Ha! Turns out, due to
Christmas lunch, there is no room service on Christmas day. We came back to our
room to begin calling less local places in the hope of being able to drive
somewhere. After ten phone calls, all of which were met with the same fully
booked mantra, we gave up.
We had a nice meal at a restaurant across the road for tea,
and have reconciled ourselves to having our own homemade Christmas in our room.
However, this is somewhat complicated by the fact that we have neither a fridge
nor microwave in our room (as an aside, I’ve rekindled my great hatred of long
life milk in tea) so we’re going to have to get creative. Currently drinking
Archers and lemonade in a can, ruminating on what to do next.
- Jess
- Jess
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