Coming down to your glorious neck of the woods again next week. My route into the Looe & Polperro area of Cornwall on the A38 takes me over the Tamar bridge as you will know. Haven't done that route before & I'm a bit confused when googling the bridge itself because it looks like I don't pay a toll to cross it on the journey to Cornwall but do pay it on the return journey. Is that right or am I getting it totally around my tit's? BTW hope you're all OK! Did you watch us on Sunday, oh dear, hoisted by our own petard you might say!
Free to get into Cornwall, pay to get into Devon just as it should be Cannot go wrong just follow the A38 and hey presto bridge. Have a good time Looe and that area is nice.
Enjoy your trip Mr Blue, nice area you're going to. £1.50 to get back into glorious Devon, Mexi is quite right, no charge into Cornwall. Nice to see you on here again, it's been a while. Don't be a stranger
How much!!!! Think last time I paid it was 40p. Devon may well be Gods own country but even then that seems a little steep.
The cornish have a wheeze now to get out of paying. There is a bloke on the Saltash side who has a big pump. He will over inflate your tyres for 50p and you can float back over the water without using the bridge.
Thanks for that mexijan! Hello Plym, hope you & yours are OK & safe. A freebie into Cornwall & £1.50 to get into Devon, you lot do think highly of yourselves.
I have an over-inflated tyre that I carry around with me sensible & unfortunately it doesn't Need a pump.
That's £1.50 to get back into England on departure from the true God's Country. I regret to say you'll pay through the nose for everything else in Looe & Polperro too. Please remember it's mostly English running the shops in parallel with owning most of the houses as summer lets. Come back in the winter and you'll be able to fire a gun through the streets down there without any danger of actually hitting a resident because there aren't any any more.
notdistant I know all about the situation in Cornwall, we've spent a lot of time down there 'out of season', In fact we very rarely go there in the busy summer months, same applies with Devon. The whole 'second home' thing is a blight on the southwest in general but we flit in & out several weeks A year & leave a good few bob in the local economy, how much of that stays there I don't know but I do my best! Believe me I am conscious of feelings down there, I've had many a conversation with disgruntled locals who Quite rightly bemoan their plight & more importantly that of their children but Cornwall in particular is at A point where it would struggle without tourism as part of its economy. I could talk about the southwest all day long, my favourite part of the country by some distance!
The Cornish are aware of their reliance on tourism and aren't hostile to visitors generally. The invasion during the summer though is just so overwhelming as to be hard to deal with. And second homes and buying up dwellings as holiday lets are an abomination wherever they occur. I hope you have a great time. You'll be especially welcome at this time of year! http://www.minack.com/whatson.htm http://www.visitcornwall.com/whats-on/north-cornwall/newquay/run-to-sun-festival-2013 http://www.visitcornwall.com/whats-on/south-cornwall/falmouth/fal-river-festival http://www.whatsoncornwall.co.uk/community/glorious-gardens-tour-at-antony-4618 http://www.visitcornwall.com/whats-...n/pasty-cup-british-kitesurfing-championships http://www.visitcornwall.com/whats-...ley/launceston/launceston-steam-vintage-rally
The Cornish a dying breed hmmm perhaps that Darwin chap was onto something This second home (retirement) thing is a big problem though. Wages in the Southwest are poor, very little manufacturing and yet house prices high really hard for kids to get onto the property ladder. My eldest has a year left at uni and will pretty much be certain to have to move away for a job.
It's the same pretty much in Devon with the second homes and outsiders moving in and inflating the prices. My wife comes originally from Dartmouth. When I first knew the Town it was full of locals and you had to live there for a minimum of 50 years if not born there to be considered semi local and get your special passport stamp. Oh how it's changed over my knowledge of the place. The in origin now is from the Midlands. The place was full of Brummies the last time I went. They don't only live there now but sadly take over the place and try and run it. The actual locals have moved out of town and seldom go into the town cenre anymore. The last Regatta according to my inlaws was a shaddow of what it used to be. Reason being that the outsiders want to run it now and it has lost it's appeal. New Years Eve was a time when all locals dressed in fancy dress and went on the lash. Now they coach loads in from outside and it is so packed the locals don't go out. What gets me is people went there, fell in love with what it was and moved there when they could. The thing they fell in love with then gets changed by them to the point it no longer resembles what it should be. Rural England is being ruined bit by bit.
Bloomin 'eck I've started something here, I'm only visiting! i think I'll walk around the place in an Argyle shirt to blend in... hang on though, better not I'll stand out like a sore thumb In the city of the county that I live on an extreme edge of the 'outsiders' are taking over the running of the place too but they've come from a lot farther afield to do so!
It's a bugger isn't it Greeners. You are welcome to wear a green shirt at any time. They do them in all sizes as I've witnessed at Home Park. The one thing you won't get branded for wearing an Argyle shirt is plastic. You may have your sanity questioned however. I've even questioned my own sanity for wearing one many times.
