I’m now feeling closer to the ‘real’ Cornwall
telegraph.co.ukAnd the more time I spend here the more I begin to understand the Cornish reticence towards incomers too.A post shared by Katie Glass (@katieelectricg)I read about how, up the coast at Cadgwith – the last full-time fishing cove – fishermen are trying to save their Winch House and Net Lofts from being bought and converted into more holiday lets and second homes. ‘Fishermen are becoming an endangered species,’ one Cadgwith fisherman complains on the BBC’s This Fishing Life.Cornwall has found itself in a difficult dance with the tourists who flock here (ostensibly bringing money and jobs), drawn to the life in these beautiful fishing coves which, ironically, their presence threatens to dilute.When people talk about gentrification it is usually.
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