St ives, cornwall, is it hard to park near the sea front ?

[Lardlizard]

I’ve not been before, but someone told me it’s a bit of a bugger to park near the the sea front ?

Olives on the left, gallery on the right. Lovely little bits and bobs.

I used to go to Blas Burgers just for their slaw, which was delicious. Do the Blas people still have the Halsetown Inn?

No I meant the Digey Food Rooms, which is in a street called The Digey a couple of streets beyond where Olives is.

Social distancing in St Ives would not be possible I think, unless they banned day trippers which boost the tourist levels every day. It empties out considerably once the people who come via the park n ride leave.

I’d be in favour of banning the trains arriving with lots of day trippers.

@HairyFloppins

Mumsnet needs a pitchfork Smiley.

Or a grockle emoji

A couple of years ago we visited a new café (or at least new to us) in Cyril Noall Square. It wasn't very busy, presumably because it's a bit tucked away, but it did an excellent cream tea. Was it still there before lockdown?

Day trippers are just doing the same as me though. I am a visitor who is staying for a week, they are staying elsewhere and St Ives is an excursion for them. So, it would be great if it didn't get so busy but I can understand why they are there!

According to my Facebook feed, many local restaurants are doing takeout/arranged collection, including Blas!

In other times. I would say, as others have, take the train from st erth. The arrival by train is so special. You get glimpses up the coast and down to the sea. And you arrive practically on the beach. That would be in other times. I wouldn’t go now. I’d go to a less busy place.

That’s true about the train, it’s often packed like sardines. This is why I think they’ll have to do something about it this year

Maybe St Ives would be less crowded if that guy didn’t have 7 wives and each wife didn’t have 7 kids.

And then all the cats....

I made a cream tea yesterday in tribute to this thread.

It was pleasant, but not quite the same as looking out across St Ives harbour!

I was due to travel there today. It's my birthday on Sunday. We have agreed not to celebrate our birthdays until lockdown is over completely. I was going to have a cream tea on my birthday in St I. The bell has just gone, a delivery came for my DH, and he opened it up and presented it to me, it's a cream tea from a company in Cornwall. Not the same of course, but I will be having a cream tea on Sunday!

Oh Sarcelle. Happy birthday. I sympathise 🤷🏻‍♀️

That should have been a ❤️

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Sorry.
But no chance.

When it’s safe, go to St. Erth, park at the station and take the train. Beautiful 10 minute train ride.

I remember the year I got the last space in Island at the beginning of our holiday, DH made us go somewhere else on day 3, never did get parked there again, the Bastard

Enjoy Sarcelle! That was a thoughtful gift.

Thanks to those who posted the webcam. I was looking yesterday and it felt like home.
Strange not to see families outside the arcade avoiding getting soaked by the shooting game, or people sloping about at the Sloop as my dad used to say!

I love how well some of you know the same things I know. The shooting game in the arcade. What about the ice cream wheel at Willy Waller’s. And who remembers spotting the plastic boats in the barber shop window on Fish Street, or the giant Playmobil man on Fore Street?

The parking problem is a real pain. If you don’t have a designated spot, it really puts you off moving your car, doesn’t it?

Ahh I’m a Moomaid girl myself! And I remember Jimmy Barber the Barber’s for the lookalike haircut all the guys had, and also the death cards displayed in the window. A local thing, I’ve not seen it anywhere else.

I live in Cornwall, I hate these sort of threads which inevitably turn into Cornish bashing / tourist bashing threads.

People in Cornwall are understandably nervous about holidaymakers visiting again, as are other tourist hot spots all around the country. The worry about hospitals isn’t that non locals shouldn’t use them, but they are smaller and have less resources, in combination with a (usually) higher percentage population of elderly people. In the summer, even without covid the acute hospital and minor injuries unit cannot cope and are always non-black alert.

I have never heard of locals vandalising a tourist’s car, however having visited st Ives in high season it is awful. Chocka block on the tiny streets with people - social distancing will be difficult, if not impossible, small streets and one way systems which are easy to get stuck in, with people walking all over the street you are trying to navigate.... nowhere to park except up a huge hill - great to walk all your beach kit back up the hill..... st Ives is beautiful but it is a victim of its own beauty and is horrible in high season. Porthcurno also gets extremely busy. If you are set on St Ives then I echo previous suggestions of the train from Lelant or St Erth.

OP - are you set on that area? There are many other lovely places which are not as cramped and difficult to navigate/park. Newquay gets a bad name but it has beautiful areas outside the town, seven sandy beaches and more parking. Wadebridge is less popular but the area has some lovely beaches nearby and lots of places inland to visit if you like walking/cycling like Bodmin Moor, the Camel trail and Camel Valley Wine (lush tasting sessions)! It all depends what you are looking for.

I have friends who run a B&B and they have said that the date when they can reopen is 4th July providing there isn’t a resurge in covid cases.

Moomaid ice cream is the best, eat it before the gulls get it. I have at least 4 of them when I am there for a week.

Which flavour though?

Shipwreck for me!

Mmm, Shipwreck. They sometimes do a cherry one too. Or I will have a double scoop, Cornish vanilla and chocolate.

Was meant to go there yesterday, so would have been my first full day wandering around. Feel quite sad today. Should be there, not here.....