Perranporth

Firstly, St. Anadok, which we're going to be featuring today.

And then Perranporth, which is a little bit further down the coast.

That'll feature on our next episode or part two of this little mini series.

But today we're St. Enodoc.

It's not as well known as perhaps you know the northwest around Liverpool or up to Ayrshire or East Lothian or parts of Ireland where you get these clusters of golf courses where people are constantly traveling to.

A little bit tougher to get down to this part of Cornwall but certainly well worth it.

You've got St Anadoc, Traverse and Perranporth all pretty close to each other in that part of the world but Also, some other great golf courses a bit further down in Cornwall.

You've got West Cornwall, Mullion, places like that that are equally worth visiting, but you might just have to travel a little bit further again for that.

My story takes place in the summer of 2019.

Me and an ex-partner of mine would go down every summer to Perranporth in Cornwall, which is a seaside town where you can surf.

And we used to wild camp in the dunes there every summer.

I think this was the third time that we'd been there and one night I had this very vivid dream of a wall almost like a stone wall and it was dripping a white liquid just so bizarre and abstract anyway so I tell them about the dream I had in the morning we got on with our day we do a bit of surfing and I That night went to bed again and I wake up at around two o'clock maybe three o'clock in the morning and I really need to go to the toilet so I head out the tent and I sit my head out the tent and about three or four feet in front of me I see a hooded figure and bent over with their hands on their knees, like bending forward, almost like they're trying to peer into the tent.

There's absolutely nothing.

So, you know, it kind of spooks us out quite a bit.

But anyway, we eventually go back to sleep and we get a The day afterwards, we are going on a little hike along the cliffs that surround Perranporth.

And at the top of the cliff, there is a map of Perranporth town.

food and beverages profitable, which most clubs will tell you that's a difficult thing to achieve and a strategic plan in place.

Just tell me a little bit, if you can, just sort of quite briefly on the chapter perhaps that led to you Leaving Woodhall Spa and then getting to Perranporth at the second time of asking, because I understand that you had an interview maybe a couple of years before you joined.

Yeah.

So obviously

Me neither.

I've been to Perranporth and played golf in Perranporth.

Have you?

Yeah, that was nice.

I mean, I have to say that the greenness of the golf courses when we were there in August was like stark in comparison to the rest of the country.

I had a very peculiar summer of travelling a lot and the week after being in Kintyre I went straight to Cornwall to Traverse and Saunton and Perranporth and they just baked like concrete basically Perranporth is on top of a cliff overlooking the beach and it's like playing golf on the moon because it was just like a dome and the ball was just running like just thousands of yards and and having been in Kintyre the week before where places were green.

So it was remarkable.

And the storm thing's real, isn't it? I remember the storms in possibly 2012, was it? They lost holes at Doonbeg, which would be sort of similar, wouldn't it, in terms of the winds that they would get from the Atlantic.