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[Barnfred 55]

Hospitality must be so reliant on locals and that can be a balancing act once the tourists arrive.

I do a fair bit of travelling after Armagh GAA and you do notice down the country that the locals get served first in a crowded bar lol

It's not too bad mate. The locals know where to avoid during the peak weeks and keep things ticking over the rest of the time.

 

[carlos21]

Don’t know that one.

A Spy among friends looks my sort of thing.

Okay then mate itv catch up.

 

[carlos21]

What's for tea tonight everyone.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Its a strange one. My family, with a load of our parents mates, holidayed there every year for ages. A ring of caravans in a field above Porthscatho, us kids were pretty much feral for 3 weeks. Padstow, when we went there a few years later as teenagers, was like any other Cornish fishing place.

Had my stag weekend in St Ives. Me and a few mates seriously considered getting a £3000 loan each to buy a 6 bedroom, 5 story, house in the old town for £18000. We didnt bother.

Now, I wouldnt dream of visiting either place for a holiday.

One day the fashion will be your beautiful island for the monied. I just hope they ignore North Somerset, (unless they want to buy our cottage)

In the BBC fishing programmes you could see the workers basically resenting tourists but seeing them as a necessarily evil. Locals can’t afford to buy a house but the visitors are sustaining the economy was the underlying theme.

And as @Barnfred 55 alluded to just now, winter was really quiet. You can see how a place can lose its identity.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

It's not too bad mate. The locals know where to avoid during the peak weeks and keep things ticking over the rest of the time.

Good. A proper local bar or restaurant is a treasure once you find it.

 

[Barnfred 55]

In the BBC fishing programmes you could see the workers basically resenting tourists but seeing them as a necessarily evil. Locals can’t afford to buy a house but the visitors are sustaining the economy was the underlying theme.

And as @Barnfred 55 alluded to just now, winter was really quiet. You can see how a place can lose its identity.

Not the tourists mate. The second home owners. The tourists are the bread and butter down here.

And I don't think the county is losing its identity at all. Its one of the reasons I love it. Local customs are so important to the community and the Cornish language is even making a comeback. There's a real pride in local identity down here.

 

[roydo]

In the BBC fishing programmes you could see the workers basically resenting tourists but seeing them as a necessarily evil. Locals can’t afford to buy a house but the visitors are sustaining the economy was the underlying theme.

And as @Barnfred 55 alluded to just now, winter was really quiet. You can see how a place can lose its identity.

Pretty much. Me brother has bought and sold a few camp sites down there over the last 10 years or so. Retired down there now. He employed locals, directed guests to certain pubs and restaurants, (no different to what holiday reps in Benidorm do) and his lad now owns a/the only, nightclub in Truro. So the tourists are needed, but they do feed the wealth that can sustain the place.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Not the tourists mate. The second home owners. The tourists are the bread and butter down here.

And I don't think the county is losing its identity at all. Its one of the reasons I love it. Local customs are so important to the community and the Cornish language is even making a comeback. There's a real pride in local identity down here.

I stand corrected.

Didn’t realise Cornwall had it’s own language.

 

[roydo]

I stand corrected.

Didn’t realise Cornwall had it’s own language.

Has its own flag as well.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Pretty much. Me brother has bought and sold a few camp sites down there over the last 10 years or so. Retired down there now. He employed locals, directed guests to certain pubs and restaurants, (no different to what holiday reps in Benidorm do) and his lad now owns a/the only, nightclub in Truro. So the tourists are needed, but they do feed the wealth that can sustain the place.

Same as Liverpool or indeed anywhere really. You need new money coming in all the time.

Second home owners (as I stand corrected above) can be an issue. Empty properties for most of the year benefits no one.

 

[Barnfred 55]

I stand corrected.

Didn’t realise Cornwall had it’s own language.

Similar to Welsh I believe. Cornwall has a Celtic heritage.

However they reckon the Cornish accent is being diluted due to the number of Emmets settling here, which is a shame as I love the accent.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Has its own flag as well.

That is flown everywhere.

 

[roydo]

Same as Liverpool or indeed anywhere really. You need new money coming in all the time.

Second home owners (as I stand corrected above) can be an issue. Empty properties for most of the year benefits no one.

I havnt been there for years, even though our kid lives there, so dont know about the resentment that 2nd houses has. But I would guess its an absolute misery for locals wanting get a place.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Similar to Welsh I believe. Cornwall has a Celtic heritage.

However they reckon the Cornish accent is being diluted due to the number of Emmets settling here, which is a shame as I love the accent.

Emmets?

 

[Armaghtoffee]

I havnt been there for years, even though our kid lives there, so dont know about the resentment that 2nd houses has. But I would guess its an absolute misery for locals wanting get a place.

This Fishing Life on BBC was a good insight.