Beauteous Cornwall

snyprrr · May 21, 2017, 08:13:54 AM

Anyone care to explain the beauties of Cornwall to me? I'm utterly in love and repelled at the same time...

NikF · May 21, 2017, 08:38:10 AM

For the UK it can have nice weather. I've surfed there a couple of times and the beaches were pleasant.
If you're a meat eater a real Cornish pasty can be good. And there's a local cheese I like called 'Yarg' (originally brought over when the Klingons fought King Arthur) and also the traditional 'cream tea'. But on the other side of the coin there's 'Stargazy pie' and the hell with even looking at that.

vandermolen · May 21, 2017, 09:27:51 PM

You get a sense of it from the TV series Poldark which is filmed there - beautiful coastal scenery. I was on holiday there last summer (Boscastle). Weather, for the UK, is usually good. Nice ice cream too! If you like walking in the countryside it is great. Malcolm Arnold's 'Padstow Lifeboat' relates to the town in Cornwall. The composer George Lloyd lived there.

Link to photo:

https://www.amazon.com/George-Lloyd-PHILHARMONIA-ORCHESTRA-GEORGE/dp/B0000049QM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495431195&sr=8-1&keywords=George+Lloyd+Eighth+Symphony

XB-70 Valkyrie · May 21, 2017, 10:09:31 PM

If you want to be utterly repelled and utterly disgusted at the same time, I invite you to come to SoCal sometime!

snyprrr · May 22, 2017, 07:39:05 AM

Quote from: XB-70 Valkyrie on May 21, 2017, 10:09:31 PM
If you want to be utterly repelled and utterly disgusted at the same time, I invite you to come to SoCal sometime!

I remember a good falafel on Hollywood Bvld., lol

... nice weather, satanic disposition...

Quote from: vandermolen on May 21, 2017, 09:27:51 PM
You get a sense of it from the TV series Poldark which is filmed there - beautiful coastal scenery. I was on holiday there last summer (Boscastle). Weather, for the UK, is usually good. Nice ice cream too! If you like walking in the countryside it is great. Malcolm Arnold's 'Padstow Lifeboat' relates to the town in Cornwall. The composer George Lloyd lived there.

Link to photo:

https://www.amazon.com/George-Lloyd-PHILHARMONIA-ORCHESTRA-GEORGE/dp/B0000049QM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495431195&sr=8-1&keywords=George+Lloyd+Eighth+Symphony

I don't remember if I visited as a child... now, my main sources of Cornwall love are the movies 'Dr. Blood's Coffin' and 'Crucible of Terror', haha!! Uber cheezee, but the landscape takes one's breath away!

"A beauty such as yours... must be preserved... in broooooonze!"

Karl Henning · May 22, 2017, 08:13:22 AM

Quote from: snyprrr on May 22, 2017, 07:39:05 AM
I remember a good falafel on Hollywood Bvld., lol ... nice weather, satanic disposition...

Good falafel of satanic disposition is no easy find.

Karl Henning · May 22, 2017, 08:14:11 AM

Quote from: snyprrr on May 22, 2017, 07:39:05 AM
I don't remember if I visited as a child... now, my main sources of Cornwall love are the movies 'Dr. Blood's Coffin' and 'Crucible of Terror', haha!! Uber cheezee, but the landscape takes one's breath away!

"A beauty such as yours... must be preserved... in broooooonze!"

Oh, I'm sure that is not typical Cornish behaviour.

vandermolen · May 22, 2017, 08:20:21 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 22, 2017, 08:14:11 AM
Oh, I'm sure that is not typical Cornish behaviour.

Well, my local town Lewes, East Sussex is apparently full of witches.

Mister Sharpe · May 22, 2017, 08:22:57 AM

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on May 22, 2017, 08:13:22 AM
Good falafel of satanic disposition is no easy find.

I can tell you where to make a devil of a deal for it: Ankar's in Chattanooga, TN. It has a certain hot ingredient in it I cannot reveal (to protect a confidence), but believe it to be the Best in the World - so deelicious I bought the tee-shirt. There's a place in Berlin that legend has is the best, been there, it ain't.

Mister Sharpe · May 22, 2017, 08:27:19 AM

Quote from: vandermolen on May 21, 2017, 09:27:51 PM
You get a sense of it from the TV series Poldark which is filmed there - beautiful coastal scenery. I was on holiday there last summer (Boscastle). Weather, for the UK, is usually good. Nice ice cream too! If you like walking in the countryside it is great. Malcolm Arnold's 'Padstow Lifeboat' relates to the town in Cornwall...

So enjoyed the second production of Poldark we are now screening the first. Both have their merits and can be recommended.

vandermolen · May 22, 2017, 11:48:21 PM

Quote from: Ghost Sonata on May 22, 2017, 08:27:19 AM
So enjoyed the second production of Poldark we are now screening the first. Both have their merits and can be recommended.

Yes, we are avid fans here. Series three to be screened here (UK) very soon.

Here's an advert for the first series containing some glimpses of the Cornish coastal scenery:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/tvandradiovideo/11455255/Poldark-Watch-the-trailer.html