Padstow
Padstow … or the village owned and run by Rick Stein the celebrity sea food chef … or so you’d think when you visit it.
Seriously though Padstow is beautiful and was well worth a visit in its own right.
However it’s been firmly put on the map by Rick Stein. He owns a cafe, a restaurant, a brasserie, a patisserie and a fish and chip restaurant, all in the village itself. We tried out the fish and chip restaurant and ate them on the sea from overlooking the harbour … they were ‘scrumdidillyumptious’.
It had everything you’d associate with a cozy archetypal Cornish village. There were traditional English ale houses, a brass band playing on the pier, the smell of pasties wafting through the air and Cornish ice-cream for sale on every street corner.
It didn’t feel false though which made it all the more delightful.
Sigh … I could get used to this!
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