"Graham Easterling" wrote in message
...

Pleasant enough here, coolish breeze but strong sunshine. 18.9 at
13:00 so
might just top 20. I expect it will easily top 21 somewhere on the
south
coast. Saturday was a glorious day, slightly warmer and little wind.

.... yes, these are the situations where your bit of Cornwall do well.

Most important of all the August
Bank holiday crowds will have gone. There is something about some of
the
people who visit Cornwall on August Bank holiday which distinguishes
them
from anybody else. The rest of the year it's fine, but an approaching
August
Bank holiday fills me with dread.

.... to judge by the comments from our neighbours (for whom we were
looking after the house), the hoteliers in the next county along from
you (that's Devon, not Prince Edward Island) are hopping-mad with the
BBC and the Met Office for the coverage of recent weeks (& this is the
latter's first summer in Devon). It's an old story of course: a lot of
coverage of floods, heavy rain, poor weather etc., but in the Torbay
area (and perhaps along the south coast of Cornwall - though haven't
checked that), even if rain has been about, August can often come up
trumps - hence the Cornish Riviera Express! We used to get the same
complaints from touriest boards all around the coast in late summer -
tone down the doom/gloom, we're having a lovely summer! You can't win.

Martin.


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