The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Polzeath, Cornwall*

Polzeath, Cornwall Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• Fish and chip shop. It keeps me going over the summer.
• The laundrett - when you are camping away from home it's nice to have some clean clothes every now and again!!

Demolish It Now Building

• the Mariner - there are just too many 12 year olds in there!!!

The Best Things

• walking from the Mariners to Daymer on the cliffs. advice; dont wear your best sequinned flip flops on the rocks as you wont be able to run when the locals are chasing you.
• The sun set. Pentire Point. The sea
• the waves
• The beach, bikinis, lifeguards and cool Aussie surfers.
• Girls!!!!
• Galleon Cafe Hot Chocolates with whipped cream and marshmallows; and fresh, hot donuts (ESPECIALLY after a surf!!).
• All the different people you get to meet. No one judges anyone(probably as they are too drunk etc to notice anything). Hippies, surfers, skaters all mix well. Camper van convoys.
• You get to meet loads of different people who come on holiday. All the bonfires on the beach and the music.
• Camper vans, surfers, surfers bodies, grannies grotto, pasties, orange juice, all night parties on the beach at Daymer bay, Robbie loves, sun, sea and sex (well most of the time) and the chips at the hungry surfer!
• All the surfers who you can spy on from the rocks. The camper van convoys rock too.Polzeath is the best place just to bum about

The Worst Things

• Drunks!
• too many yuppies and hooray henries southern softies
• Public school lot driving down in estates from Rock.
• you do SO much walking, especially at nite so dont expect to rely on the parents for lifts everywhere. Daymer gets damm cold at night so always remember your hoodie & cardies girlies!
• Yuppie public school tourists who give the rest of us tourists a bad name by ruining the place
• the absence of weird and disturbed people
• absolutely wopping hills
• Not enough pubs.
• Expensive challets
• Geting sand everywhere.
• The people who work in the spa! They ID everyone even if you 've been in there 20 times and you are blatently over 18. The strange old man that walks round the beach at night in a duffle coat. He's scary. There's no cash piont for miles which is soooo annoying and in the winter it bites here. The security men on the beach do the whole age repressing youth thing.
• The 14 year olds who come on holiday alone for the first time and just get drunk and ill every night. They are found outside the post office wearing addidas. If you haven't got a car you are trapped.
• Polzeath FM - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no more please - also Polzeath is a strictly summer place!!!
• The place in the winter bites! People constantly playing 'Sweethome Alabama' on the guitar-WHY? If you can't surf then don't bother coming. The nearest cash point is miles away.

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Last updated: 2008-06-12