The Knowhere Guide

Best and Worst in Looe, Cornwall*

Looe, Cornwall Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• The olg guildhall
• The round house at West Looe. I used to live in it and it was haunted to the core. Don't know if it still is.
• Errrrm, nope, sorry. Can't think of one.
• There are so many wonderful buildings in Looe that I couldn't possibly name a single favourite. Oh no wait a minute, there aren't. Probably the discovery centre at te millpool
• The Bridge without it we could'nt get from East looe to West looe and back again!

Demolish It Now Building

• Demolish the entire Barbican estate (pre 1970).
• Sad that the Boscarn gets the vote to flatten. Yes it does look a bit like a working mens club( being Yorkshire we see lots of those) BUT the beer garden is lovely, overlooking the beach and the lager is always cold!
• yep!
• Any of them, take your pick...PLEASE?
• The Admiral Boscarn - it's like the worst kind of working man's club!
• The Boscarne, the biggest blot in Looe,What pupose does it serve?
• The hideous Fish & Chip Shop next to Lloyds bank, horrible building-crap chips

The Best Things

• LOCALS AND PUBS. VERY RELAXED ATMOSPHERE.
• Everything!
• Looe is a good base and if you're into battleships, you'll see plenty of them on the horizon, with a good pair of binoculars.Dogs not allowed on the main beach.
• the beach
• The tourist season, you have much less contact with the locals.
• The summer when the locals are drowned out by the tourists, they can't arive fast enough.
• Picture-postcard Cornish village with nice little winding streets and lots of good pubs and restaurants.
• Walking along the Banjo pier on a windy, grey day and watching the clouds racing over Looe Island. Summer with my mates - visiting our friends who live in Looe, doing plenty of laughing, drinking and living!
• The atmosphere !
• Solemates shoe shop - great value
• Summer = Packed out & buzzing. Winter = Empty and all for the local's Best Of Both Worlds

The Worst Things

• BLOODY SEAGULLS SHITTING ON ME.
• Having to come home after the annual two week holiday.
• Realising you are not a tourist and you get frustrated trying to get along the pavement only to be shoved on the road by the slow "real" tourists.
• Dog mess on the second beach and lack of parking in the town.But then it's not too much of a walk!.
• the animals
• The winters, when not even the tourists are there to act as a buffer between you and the locals.
• The winters when there is no buffer zone between members of the human race who just happen to be unfortunate enough to be living there and the locals.
• Looe - try Polperro
• The depths of winter - so depressing!
• The Wind !
• Smell of Fish from the fish Market.

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Last updated: 2007-11-01