We’re visiting Cornwall on holiday in a few days time. I’m looking forward to the fresh air and gazing at the visual feast of the colours that are part of the surroundings . The greens and browns of the vegetation , the blue green sea and the abundant white cumulus clouds with the blue background of a windswept sky. Yes and the rain and wind if so be it.It’s all part of it’s magic, including the crunch of my well worn casual shoes under our frequently trodden paths down to the many beaches and hidden coves that abound along the Cornish Coasts.
So how in hell can five minutes browsing on the internet turn my anticipated vacation into a prospect of hell on earth.Quite easily it seems.
Articles about how millionaires or (allowing for rampant inflation in house prices) multimillionaires have ruined St Ives and turned it into a ghost town in Winter.
The empty houses and empty streets are gifted by those second and third time home owners from London who have invested in property,but head off to the the Carribbean in the winter.
Down the road in Redruth there are homeless sleeping on the streets and a lack of leisure shopping for the locals,who regularly have to use food banks just to exist and get help from the Citizens Advice Bureau on how to pay their electricity bill.
Poor Redruth,you see,it used to be part of our holiday,it had a very good Chinese Restaurant,it might still be there for all we know.
I mean Redruth is not a tourist destination, we go to Cornwall not to visit multi millionaire hotspots like St Ives or even to see how the poor unfortunates of Redruth live.We go to appreciate what is great about Cornwall and enjoy our holiday,as I’m sure many others do.
But there goes the internet,polarising thoughts and trying to instill guilt into our pores.How dare you visit wonderful Cornwall and not consider the evil rich or the vile behaviour of drug and alcohol addicts who make the local people’s life a misery.(A modern evil in every town in the UK,I’m afraid)
No actually ;Internet,I’m going on holiday and I will see the beauty,to give me strength to do what I can to face the real problems and difficulties that exist. Your articles are unhelpful and probably part of a phishing conspiracy by some extreme climate change organisation or just some sad journalist trying to make a name for themselves.
Whatever,sun,sand ,sea and beautiful scenery are not the prerogative of the rich and privileged.
thenotsomightyom 