Dec 18

Dec 18 Christmas Catch-Up in Looe

It’s easy to get hung up with the preparations for Christmas and forgetting that this should be a time for making that extra effort to see people you haven’t seen for many a month, if indeed not many a year.

So … since I was in the neighbourhood, it was down to Looe in Cornwall to meet some old friends. It’s been on the cards for such a long time.

It’s one of those places I have always wanted to visit but never quite got there. Usually just passing by on the way to somewhere else. But given that I actually lived in Cornwall for a year way back when, it’s a wonder I never managed it.

But what a fabulous place. Not just the town, but the journey too, and of course the hosts when I eventually got there.

A bit of a kerfuffle by train from Totnes, by train to Plymouth, then on to Liskeard and then a charming switchback of a train ride, an old mineral line, that delieverd me into the heart of Looe. A quick familiarisation tour of the town - clearly buzzing - and then back for a slap-up roast dinner and a good chin-wag over old times. Lamb, roast potatoes, heritage carrots. Yum.

Slightly surreal trip back to Totnes, changing at a deserted rush-hour Plymouth station. People spooked by the latest pandemic news clearly, and then on to Totnes which gives the impression of having nothing to do with it.

A good thing? Not sure.

Felt very Christmassy - in it’s proper sense - just for a day.