Beach Ices at Praa Sands
Ice meeting the sand at the base of the low cliff behind Praa Sands Beach, West Cornwall. 6th January 2009....
Icicles at Trewellard Bottoms
Water seeping through a wall is turned to icicles, ate Trewellard Bottoms, where Geevor Mine meets the sea....
Winter Sunset at Levant
A late afternoon scene, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall. 7th January 2009....
Winter at Levant
The old electricity generator building, at Levant Mine, West Cornwall, during the recent cold snap. 7th Jnauary 2009....
I mean, it's loads more celtic, or so I'm told.....
I remember the last time I went to brittany, had Moule et Frites and Artichoke pizza, mmmmmmmmm
Had lots of local booze as well, back when I used to drink, amazing what you can do with apples.
Better in Brittany all round IMO, but the reason people pay over the odds to stay in the UK is because they can't be bothered to speak another language. I like to think of it as a 'xenophobe tax'..........
What's the writer on about -no food available at 10:20 in Devon? Exeter Services, M5 junction 30, provide a traditional British culinary experience around the clock
Last time I went into a pub in Exeter, the clientelle were speaking English until I ordered a pint in English. They all immediately switched to South-Western Brythonic
(with reference to the English tourist urban myth - and it is myth - about Wales).
Brittany wins by a considerable margin but in fairness Devon is a decent place once you get to know it. Not only does it have a rich historical environment - stone age to modern era - with prehistoric, Celtic, Roman, Saxon (in the 1000 year old sense), Norman, medieval and recent heritage but also the landscapes and coasts are splendid in parts. The fact that many of the visitors, and at least some of the natives, are of the unadventurous variety means that certain honeypots get snarled out with grockles, aka emmets, (plus unadventurous locals) but some of the more remote places - which take a bit of effort to get to, I mean they're more than a mile from the road - remain relatively unfrequented and unspoilt even in the summer months.
I think it's better to live here than to holiday in.
...but the Mussels in places like Dartmouth are every bit as nice as those in Brittany (trust me!).
And Brittany even has Cider (better than that Normandy rubbish)!!
The Central north of Brittany has an area traditionally known as "Domnonee" (ie Dumnonia or Devon) in a like fashion to its "Cournouaille" in its south west.
Personally speaking I found both parts of Brittany to be far nicer than Paris! (..and I lived in St Brieuc fo a while)
I agree, C.Jenkin, but there is more to it than that! We celebrate our Celtic traditions and folklore in Cornwall, a growing number of us speak our Cornish Celtic language in our homes and in the pubs etc. When the SWF is identified, then relatively large sections of our society will become aware of the language together with our distinct history and the traditions that go hand in hand with it and we shall have regained some of that which those who wish to assimilate us by force have taken from us. I don't think the same can be said of Devonshire as its links to a Celtic identity are like gossamer threads in comparison, there being nothing more tenuous than one or two traditions emanating from Dunmonia that have survived there. Let's face it, Celtic resistance in Devonshire to the advancing Anglo-Saxon incursion disappeared like Scotch mist and any claim that a Celtic language, associated folklore traditions, customs and practices survive from that period is equally as fragile.
We are buying a house there, thought long and hard about it and did some research to try to find out what the locals (I mean Breton not French) would feel about us coming there.
On our second trip, when we viewed and picked the house we are now buying, we were treated very amiably by the Breton people when I explained where I was from.
Discovered the area was called Cournouaille, even saw an argicultural depot with a sign "St. Yvs, Cournouaille" !!
Then her indoors discovered her maiden name is of Breton origin, which is even more of a link to the area for us.
Final good omen for us was when I stopped just down the lane from our new place to take some photos, a RL registered car drove by with Kernow stickers in the back window !!!
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