The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169103   Message #4086308
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Jan-21 - 03:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: worst poets
Subject: RE: BS: worst poets
John Betjeman is buried in a tiny and lovely little churchyard fairly close to where we live, at St Enodoc's church near Daymer Bay in north Cornwall, near where he lived. The church has a rather crooked steeple, and was once buried in blown sand. We park up at Daymer Bay car park, then walk over what must be one of our most picturesque golf courses (never played golf in my life and never will, but hey), passing the church, paying homage of course, seeing the views over the Camel estuary and ending up at the sea front at Rock. We then take the foot ferry over to Padstow, where we buy a pasty at the finest pasty shop in Cornwall, Chough Bakery, and a mug of tea at the nearby kiosk. We then have to stave off the hungry gulls as we scoff the pasties. Then it's back on the ferry, and a lovely stroll back on the beach from Rock back to Daymer Bay (you have to be somewhat canny to get the tide times right). A poetic day out, not too strenuous.