Am I unusual that Cornwall didn't really do it for me?

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Just that. OK the weather wasn't really great which didn't help, but the scenery wasn't as stunning as I had expected. I think Wales is more stunning,and the lake district.
Did I miss something?

We're holidaying in Cornwall at the moment. I feel like I need to whisper this but...I quite like Newquay!

My other UK favourites are Tenby and Lyme Regis.

That's exactly it - I preferred the area around Newquay than most others!

I'm sure Newquay is nice. And no-one is really saying Cornwall is bad. I think what it is, is it seems so revered and people seem so much in awe of it, like everyone should be jell of those who live there, and it's so popular with tourists. Yet it's nothing special. And as I said, it's bleedin' AWFUL to get to! (From much of the UK.)

Around Newquay yes - crantock, mawgan porth, watergate are all lovely but lovelier to us who live here when there are less folk around.

The coast paths are beautiful. The south coast on the Roseland is much less fucked about with.

I wish we didn't rely so heavily on tourism, and I agree with a PP about infrastructure. I'm very annoyed that yet another m&s foodhall is being built along the a30 and buses are beyond the pale.

But being far away isn't that much of a drag, somewhere has to be!

It's all about perspective I guess. Having grown up here I'm not accustomed to having amenities on my doorstep.

The first time I had pizza delivered to my halls at uni it blew my mind. I felt like I was on friends or something

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But it's fine living here, because we're already here, so don't have to spend hours getting here. I think you'll find that it's the rest of the UK that's stupidly far away .

Thursday

Apparently (according to the reliable testimony of a 7 year old ) my ex sometimes gets pizza delivered by motorbike. To his small village on the Lizard. (And then moans about being skint. Pthththththththt.)

.....so, even Cornwall's been dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th Century .

I don't actually live that far from Truro but still no dice here

Ha ha ha, no offence intended anyone.

It's JMO. Just wouldn't wanna live there. I mean down that part of the world. And yeah it would take a while to get anywhere else from there obvs!

It must be a pain with it being so 'touristy' though and having such oldie world windy streets and roads and stuff.

Would have been better left alone.

Pssssst.....our small village (between Falmouth / Helston, not a touristy one) has a wood fired pizza van every Saturday night

(although I don't frequent it, because I make damn fine pizzas myself).

Oh yes actually we have one of them too...well, up the road...a 5 min drive away. I forgot!

I fucking love the windy lanes.

And the tourists go, again. Although I did say to my friend today that the sensible option would be to chuck everything in the car and just fuck off to France for the whole of the summer holidays. Which I very much intend to do when DS2 is just a little older. wonders if you're allowed to Airb'n'b a HA house

Again, perspective, I don't even notice the lanes especially. Until I get up on Bodmin Moor where I note their absence I guess.

I feel very comfortable in the lanes. Going up to the Home Counties, where my parents live, freaks me right out. Huge roundabout, dual carriageway, roundabout, dual carriageway......Lots of very aggressive drivers in expensive cars, too.

Oh dear ! Love Cornwall and keep going , but I am from Cumbria and live in Yorkshire , so basically as long as it doesn't rain non stop for the entire holiday , it is t-shirt weather and even if it does rain , it is still warmer rain , therefore T-shirt weather

I've had some lovely times in some lovely parts of Cornwall, but it's not spectacular and breathtakingly awesome like e.g. parts of Scotland, it's just nice.

And nice isn't worth the shit drive there and back.

We are very much west country fans but do prefer Devon and Dorset but a recent trip to Wales leaves them all behind. Stunning scenery even in the rain (of which there is plenty) and the people are genuinely warm and welcoming.

DD1 lives in Cornwall and is escaping at the end of this month. I have been down twice in the 8 years she has lived there, for very short amounts of time. While it is pretty enough, it is not outstanding and I was not particularly enamored. I certainly wouldn't go back now that she is moving away and it is hideously expensive. I didn't hate it, but it did nothing for me.

YANBU OP. Any time I have been to Cornwall it has rained, and I find the grey stone villages quite depressing. I much prefer Devon and Dorset.

My late SIL (DH's sister) lived in Redruth (which is v. depressing IMO) and we visited a few times. It never took us less than 6 hours, and that was on a good run from Kent. When we went down at Easter to clear her flat out after she'd died it took us 7 hours. We were halfway there and DH said "Bloody Hell, this journey is interminable - and she wondered why we didn't come to see her frequently."

It's not somewhere I'd rush back to to be honest.

Loved Porthcurno, Sennen and Looe. Thought the Eden project was a massive rip off and very dull, way too many people allowed in at once. All the Boden families doing performance parenting did my head in.

Eden felt a bit too worthy.

I live in Cornwall, I bloody love it here. Although not in rainy August, it's vile in August. And most of July. Other 10 months of the year, lovely. I know we rely on tourism (my business certainly does) but fucking hell, some tourists are so rude!

I agree. I've been to Cornwall a few times but in general I'd say the scenery isn't that spectacular.
I think it's a myth perpetuated by country starved Londoners who think a flat field is " a view"
I do like the little coastal villages. They are the best bit but Whitby/ Robin hoods bay just as pretty and nearer for me.

The only place in Cornwall that we have been is Bude. We travelled down when we were staying in Woolacombe, Devon. I thought it was very dire not at all what I was expecting. At least I can say I've been to Cornwall now. If we've of gone of further down to South Cornwall it might of been a different impression. I think my favourite please has got to be Durdle door. It's the most beautiful place and I love the walk down to Lulworth Cove.

I live in Wales. Born in the Midlands but lived mostly around the Home Counties. Never again. Couldn't take the traffic etc. That saying, my family think it's too isolated and 'boring' in the country.
When I was younger my exH always wanted to holiday In Cornwall - jeepers, 40 years ago - and even back then, endless traffic jams past Stonehenge. Followed by days in amusement arcades cos of the rain. It IS pretty, but then so are the North Yorkshire coastline - and Cumbria/Northumberland are ravishing. Suffolk and Norfolk ! And the people so friendly. And because formerly industrial areas, so many interesting places and museums to visit. Very rural areas aren't that great when it rains. Unless you like sheep. Wet sheep. Baaa.

I think Cornwall became fashionable when people like Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Rick Stein moved there. The Eden Project, Poldark etc. Never underestimate the effect a TV program has. Whitby was really quiet pre Heartbeat. Even 20 years ago it was cheap as chips to buy a house in Cornwall or around North Yorkshire. . I do feel so sorry for locals who've basically been priced out of their area. But that's another thread ....