It’s a sad fact that so many of those pretty little cottages are holiday homes owned by wealthy Londoners, making it almost impossible for locals to buy homes there.
Is it sad? Have you been to many other Cornish towns and villages with no 2nd homes nor tourism? They’re usually shit’oles. This place would be a shit’ole too without the Londoners money there. True story! 💯
And all knowingly sold by the Kernows to Londoners! Rather than sell at a price a local could afford which they were perfectly able to do so with means and ways available to do so had the vendors wanted to look after the locals rather than take the money and run..................so you cant lay all the blame with the buyers even though everyone tries to. Be careful what you wish for though as no holiday homes/lets and no local business/income bar the fishing which barely pays for the beer and a pasty these days................
This country holds hundreds of beautiful places like this yet many don't even kno they exist they'd rather "travel the world" but don't kno what's on our doorstep ,we as a family love Cornwall and now in my later years spend lovely weeks with our dogs there a few hours in the van and we're there 😎
Cornwall is my favourite place in England. Not only for its beauty but also for it's history and it's Celtic mythology. To me it hums with magic and mystery. My heart is in Helston...Loe Pool is one of the places where King Arthur is said to have met The Lady of the Lake and claimed Excalibur. The Blue Anchor where they brew their own beer, Spingo. They have a 16th century skittle alley where you can play and take on the locals, who are very welcoming. I ❤ Cornwall.
Lovely to hear this chap say lovely things about the UK. Having travelled the world for many many years working, I’ve got to say ‘not too biased I hope’ that the UK is certainly one of the best places to live or holiday. The BBC, EU and folk who haven’t traveled love to put the UK down but it’s jealousy. Certainly it’s a lovely place but in the UK there are many hundreds of places like this, my village is one such place, totally stunning.
Well I have to say that what motivated my trip to the UK was my love of football. The discovery of its sheer spectacular landscape and the unique historic beauty of it's towns and villages was wonderful bonus that I was compelled to share. I have whole lot more videos to come. Cheers and thank you for your kind words
I grew up in Cornwall and it's my favourite place on earth when the weather is sunny. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to predict! You can easily spend a week in summer and see nothing but rain and grey sky.
@@filevans North Devon and South Devon have beautiful villages , one being Clovelly Lynton + Lynmouth by the way Cornwall is in England even if you don’t like it so don’t talk a load of crap
Lived in Cornwall 20 years. Polperro was always my favourite visit. Bit of info. Harbour has no access to traffic, so when they built the new sewage treatment works EVERTHING had to bought in BY BOAT, from FALMOUTH!
Polperro is very pretty, but it can be a terrible tourist trap. I was working not far from there and went on a weekend off. It was rammed. Fish and chips were good though. I took a boat trip along the coast which was nice.
I was born and grew up in Cornwall but I would never visit it in any holiday period now. The road infrastructure is awful and the traffic jams horrendous.
it's not been a good road trip until you meet a coach coming head-on [with a huge line of cars behind it] - and it's been a great one when, you are stuck behind a tractor [with a 2 mile tailback] and it meets a coach on one of those lanes.
I was, as we say in Australia, absolutely “gobsmacked” by its beauty ! That little port, idyllic !. Sitting on that bridge eating the pastie (not paystee) will live long in my memory ! Cheers ! Oll an Gwella !
Back in the 1960s, my family spent many holidays in Penny cottage, Polperro. My dad actually managed to drive our car over that bridge but then got stuck as the turns at the end are too tight. Happy days.
I love this place, it looks beautiful in the video you have made. If it’s tricky parking you can get there by walking from Looe if and you get a great sense of journey. Then you can have a few beers in the pub and walk back in the evening on a beautiful summers day. 👌
Yep. Parking was a bit of a drag especially the "coins only" meter. We had to scrounge for change. Im an avid walker. Had I known about the trek from Looe I'd have surely taken it. I'll be back though !
@@pillred5974 definitely a bit of a long hike! It was a summer day and an incredible crab sandwich and a few pints of Doombar at the Blue Peter really helped. My wife was really dragging her feet on the way back! 🤣
@@arturotraveller3761 Thanks for getting back . Yep been back and forth to Nelson Bay NSW , then back to Cornwall ,then to Sydney for work , Germany, Cambridgeshire then back to Cornwall .Me and my Wife live outside Camborne, If you like a bit of History it is where Richard Trevithick invented the first steam vehicle ." The Puffing Devil" Trevithick day is once a year in the town . Tis a celebration of all things Steam .Worth a look on u Tube. UK can be a drag in the winter , but have to go with the flow ! Where in Aus do you live ? regards Graham
IT SO lovely there ,I haven't been for about year's. BUT my family live in Cornwall. And we THINK are sellvers very lucky to have family in Cornwall. Take care and all the best. 😊😊👍👍👍👍
Lovely little gem this place fella. Lots of others around the UK also so I hope you got to see as many as possible. All about them Paaaaaasstys. Excellent video mate. Nice one!
I live in Nz but moved here from Cornwall. I saw a painting of Polperro in a local op shop. It was awful but of course I had to buy it. Love that place 😊
Spent some lovely holidays in Polperro years ago. Many happy hours in the Three Pilchards pub. Last time I was there there was a disastrous storm and flood, October1976, I think.
I wouldn't leave your pasty lying around like that.....the gulls in Cornwall have learnt there's many a free meal to be had off the tourists!! I was in the Three Pilchards pub there only last Saturday.
Don’t worry, in time plenty will visit this lovely little town. Mass immigrants….and they will change it like they will with most towns. Enjoy it while you can.
What are you talking about?! The indigenous rich have forced locals out by buying up homes for holiday use which has a knock on effect on the now even more limited housing stock. Keep your negative opinions off these lovely positive channels 🙄
@@moominmay negative opinions, is that, the kettle calling the pot black? It the locals fault for selling their homes to the highest bidder and has nothing to do with the fact that in 2036, by national statistics own figure there will be another 6 million migrant in this country, some of which will no doubt will be heading to this pretty little town. Additionally, I will post my opinions on any y tube channel that I feel obliged to comment on, irrespective whether others may agree or disagree with my comments. You do not have to read them. 🤛🏼
Fair call ! This however, is a simple travel vlog focussing on the beauty of the village. I never imagined it would be conflated with real estate pricing or prevailing sentiments on immigration (rightly, wrongly, illegal or otherwise). Nonetheless opinions matters albeit the subject of some disagreement. Cheers !
Portmeirion on the coast of North wales where the Prisoner was filmed in the Italian village, they have a beautiful range of pottery of the same name. You could visit our castles too.
The pottery isn't local, it's a very high quality pottery made by a company called 'Moorcroft' and is highly collected. Smuggling was a huge industry in the 18th and 19th centuries. Oll an Gwella!
It is quite correct that people don't know what's on their doorstep! Sadly getting the weather right is another matter. The U.K has 1,000 islands that's correct 1,000! With some beeches looking as though they've been pulled from the Caribbean and are totally unspoilt.
I have been to Newquay twice and have been down as far as Truro, CORNWALL is Magnificent, Little known fact is that CORNWALL is part of the Crown Estates of the Monarch, but is not officially part of England, anymore. Check the History and you will see.
Wonderful video! You’ve eaten the pasty very wrong though!! You’re supposed to hold it by the crimp (the swirly thick part), technically you’d throw that part away in tradition of how the miners would eat them. Too tasty to do that these days though 😎
Thank for your kind words. As for the eating of the pasty, I’ll be taking your advice next time I eat one. Problem is you just can’t get pasties like that in Sydney, Australia - Cheers ! Reply
what a ridiculously dumb thing to say " eaten the pasty wrong" 🤣 is he a tin miner from the 1900's ??? no he is not !! he can eat it any way he bloody well wants !!! unbelievable 😂😂
I really think using words like “dumb” and “unbelievable”, just show how “dumb” and “unbelievable” you are! To not have the ability to recognise that my polite and lighthearted words about the traditions of a Cornish pasty were a well thought out comment to support the channel. All whilst posting a fun piece of information! You also seem to lack the ability to observe surrounding evidence, so I’ll highlight the fact that the channel owner has responded to my comment and clearly received it in the way it was intended. Meaning you must be ridiculously unbelievably dumb! Oh and by the way, although yes mining still continued into the 1900’s, in context of the miners eating pasty’s it would of made more sense for you to of put either the 1600’s or 1700’s as this is when it was much more commonplace. Of course I’d never call you dumb for this though.
Lime kiln cottage note: not a potters cottage! Limestone was brought in by sea and you can see lime kilns all around the coast. Limestone was burnt to create quicklime, and this was used to in construction (mortar, plaster, whitewash etc) but mainly to put on the land to make it less acid.
Obviously the foreign influx haven’t reached out that far yet, hence why it looks beautiful and so peaceful, but give it time, it won’t be long before they come and destroy that lovely port.
@@garygalt4146urgh! Exactly! Increasingly I’m finding embittered old men usually, flooding comments on beautiful videos like this just to spout this one negative sentiment without any reference to what the video itself is about. I’m convinced they’re not even watching them lol but just copying g and pasting their hate before searching fir the next 🙄
I lived about six miles away from Polperro but have only visited it three times, each time by boat. Even as a teenager 50 years ago the car parking prices were too high to make it worthwhile. It’s very pretty but there are better places to visit in the area.
This is happening all over the country to the lovely seaside towns. Here in Felixstowe it has started already. Lots of Airbnb, holiday rentals. Results very little on the market for locals to rent. It usually is the beginning of the end for a town when this happens. I blame the government policies but local councils can do a lot to control it.
My Grandfather was the policeman in Polperro(the only one) it's where my mother grew up. And my great great great Grandfather skippered an open top lugger from Newlyn to Australia a couple hundred years ago, I'm sensing a slight Aussie accent?
@@arturotraveller3761 I think that was his office/station as my mother said where they lived their kitchen was 'across the way' as she put it and they had to carry the water from the kitchen to the main cottage to have a bath. This was in the 40's. I'll ask her tomorrow she's still going strong.
I have lived in North Cornwall for the past 28 years and I can tell you 'idyllic' little towns such as Polperro, Mevagissey, Fowey and Looe are bloody murder in the last spring, summer and early autumn. Crowded? It's often as bad a Leicester Sq on a good day. OK, this is from a visitor and a non-Brit and as he's on holiday he's enjoying the change. But most of the south coast is twee little tourist trap with a fake 'traditional' and 'authentic' gloss, mainly provided by incomers who have started a business. And the point has already been made that far, far, far too many of the homes are second homes (rarely visited).
Patrick, my video as you point out is through the rose coloured glasses of a bloke on tour but if it has helped to increase awareness (in its own small way) albeit of a different issue, I take some pride in that - Cheers ! Oll an Gwella
There are hundreds of places in the UK just as attrective. Cornwall is excessively over hyped to its overrun with tourists. Far better to go elsehere and avoid the hordes.
Get a map and head to places which are 10 mins away from other well known places. You could have gone to Downderry also near to Polperro. Walking the coast path is a good way to explore.
Ignore the hype around the Cotswolds, Stonehenge, Cornwall, York, Stratford upon Avon etc. Yes these places are attractive and interesting and if you don't mind rubbing shoulders with half the world's population fine. The fact is though that anywhere in the UK will give you stunning scenery, pretty towns and villages, castles and churches and stately homes. Buy a good guide and do some research. Then just choose a location and explore. Of course it will take a lifetime to explore it all. Best plan is not to try to see places far apart. It takes a lot longer to get around than you think. Go for a locality such as Shropshire, Norfolk, Scottish Borders or Pembrokeshire for example and you will never forget it.
This county has been “scoured out” by second homes, (and third homes?) and AIRB&B . Nothing for locals who need homes to actually live in! I accept that it takes one person to sell, to allow another person to buy up, but the prices only allow wealthy folk from up the line to buy into eg.Polperro! The county cannot recover from the onslaught that started in earnest some ?20? years ago. Cornwall is certainly not the only county to suffer this fate. Sad, very sad, as many of these folk don’t give a fig for the places they’ve bought into, except maybe when they rock up for their 2 or 3 weeks in July/August!
Yeah ! I kinda felt an Oggy for 12 Aussie Dollars ( double the hit) was a bit much but here’s thing. I didn’t pay for the pasty I paid to sit on that bridge and eat it ! That was a bargain at any price - Cheers !
I’ll soon be uploading my series on the Cotswolds. Another magical part of the world . Stay tuned. In the meantime check out Bibury ruclips.net/video/8MgvNpM5RwQ/видео.htmlsi=RDBJ2yNihJIec1Ut
@@arturotraveller3761 Check out a Clovelly, Hope Cove, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Noss Mayo/ Newton Ferrers, Bigbury Island and its sea tractor, the South Hams area in general with Salcombe (most expensive coastal real estate in the UK) and Dartmouth
Depends on what you call expensive. As I recall it was 7-8 pounds. Comapred to similar parking in Europe and what we pay in Sydney around the trousit district it was cheap and that considering it was $15 Aussie. Cheers ! BTW - the cost of the parking was worth it
There is another way of seeing this. It’s a tourist trap and nearly all those houses are second homes and holiday lets. Not a place l would choose to go.
These video clip travelogue guides are always misleading. Try visiting - or living in - such a place in the middle of Winter when it's freezing cold and p*ssing down with rain. It might dissuade a few people from such an idyllic place !
Spent 3 nights in Whitby. What a beautiful town. Not really comparing "apples with apples" though. One is a picturesque, the other historic. Whitby one of the highlights of my trip. Will soon be uploading the video - cheers
You are mixing it up with a Clovely in North Devon. Polperro is not owned by one family. Houses are freely bought and sold on the open market and the roads are not private,
At 12 Aussie dollars you could say I am but I didn’t pay just for the pastie, I paid to sit on that bridge and eat it. For me that was a bargain at any price
It’s a sad fact that so many of those pretty little cottages are holiday homes owned by wealthy Londoners, making it almost impossible for locals to buy homes there.
Is it sad? Have you been to many other Cornish towns and villages with no 2nd homes nor tourism? They’re usually shit’oles. This place would be a shit’ole too without the Londoners money there. True story! 💯
True. On the other hand, they do keep them in tiptop condition. Locals be scrappy 😂
@@tobiasisback4605 I said similar yet my comment has vanished! 😱
@@tobiasisback4605Mainly because Londoners pay inflated rates with the result that locals can’t afford tradesmen
And all knowingly sold by the Kernows to Londoners! Rather than sell at a price a local could afford which they were perfectly able to do so with means and ways available to do so had the vendors wanted to look after the locals rather than take the money and run..................so you cant lay all the blame with the buyers even though everyone tries to. Be careful what you wish for though as no holiday homes/lets and no local business/income bar the fishing which barely pays for the beer and a pasty these days................
This country holds hundreds of beautiful places like this yet many don't even kno they exist they'd rather "travel the world" but don't kno what's on our doorstep ,we as a family love Cornwall and now in my later years spend lovely weeks with our dogs there a few hours in the van and we're there 😎
Cornwall is my favourite place in England. Not only for its beauty but also for it's history and it's Celtic mythology. To me it hums with magic and mystery. My heart is in Helston...Loe Pool is one of the places where King Arthur is said to have met The Lady of the Lake and claimed Excalibur. The Blue Anchor where they brew their own beer, Spingo. They have a 16th century skittle alley where you can play and take on the locals, who are very welcoming. I ❤ Cornwall.
Polperro was my late mum's favourite place in Cornwall and I can understand why. Stunning traditional Cornish harbour town.
Aaaaaaaagggghhhhhh Cornish PASSSSSS Teee........ "paste-eee" indeed!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bless!!!!
Yep noted ! I get it ! I actually myself sitting on the bridge - Cheers ! I'm lovin the banter
Holidayed there in 1963. Great place
lol....I can't remember what I was doing last week..never mind 60 years ago...
I WAS THERE 22 YRS AGO, NOTHING CHANGED THAT I'D NOTICE, EXCEPT PERHAPS MORE FOREIGN VISITORS.@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
Lovely to hear this chap say lovely things about the UK. Having travelled the world for many many years working, I’ve got to say ‘not too biased I hope’ that the UK is certainly one of the best places to live or holiday. The BBC, EU and folk who haven’t traveled love to put the UK down but it’s jealousy.
Certainly it’s a lovely place but in the UK there are many hundreds of places like this, my village is one such place, totally stunning.
Well I have to say that what motivated my trip to the UK was my love of football. The discovery of its sheer spectacular landscape and the unique historic beauty of it's towns and villages was wonderful bonus that I was compelled to share. I have whole lot more videos to come. Cheers and thank you for your kind words
I grew up in Cornwall and it's my favourite place on earth when the weather is sunny. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to predict! You can easily spend a week in summer and see nothing but rain and grey sky.
Couldn’t think of anything better ! Sunshine and rain each have their beauty.
There are dozens of villages like this all around the British coast,we are very lucky in this country
You sure are ! Those villages are one the “best kept secrets” no more.
@@arturotraveller3761 let’s keep it like that
Nice country. Pity about the all the Mosque’s blighting its future.
Nowhere in England is like Cornwall, it's unique, so you're talking rubbish
@@filevans North Devon and South Devon have beautiful villages , one being Clovelly Lynton + Lynmouth by the way Cornwall is in England even if you don’t like it so don’t talk a load of crap
Lived in Cornwall 20 years. Polperro was always my favourite visit. Bit of info. Harbour has no access to traffic, so when they built the new sewage treatment works EVERTHING had to bought in BY BOAT, from FALMOUTH!
my wife and i have been to Polperro a few times and it is indeed a lovely little place
I think Polpeo is nice fishing
I think Polpero is very nice but I think Mevigisey in Cornwell I much better. Went years ago with my parents.
MY FAVOURTE.
Polperro is very pretty, but it can be a terrible tourist trap. I was working not far from there and went on a weekend off. It was rammed. Fish and chips were good though. I took a boat trip along the coast which was nice.
My favourite Cornish stay! 🙏👍❤️
Your enthusiasm and positive attitude is infectious - Good man!
Thank you !
Spent many a summer on that little beach in my youth.
I was in Cornwall last year visiting from Oz. Some of their main roads are narrower than my driveway.
I was born and grew up in Cornwall but I would never visit it in any holiday period now. The road infrastructure is awful and the traffic jams horrendous.
it's not been a good road trip until you meet a coach coming head-on [with a huge line of cars behind it] - and it's been a great one when, you are stuck behind a tractor [with a 2 mile tailback] and it meets a coach on one of those lanes.
Great video, amazing place. We forget how gorgeous English coastal villages can be, proper pasty and a bit of currant bun....fantastic
I was, as we say in Australia, absolutely “gobsmacked” by its beauty ! That little port, idyllic !. Sitting on that bridge eating the pastie (not paystee) will live long in my memory ! Cheers ! Oll an Gwella !
love this video mate! I want to be like you when I'm older, your positivity and coolness is immense!
Thank you for kind words ! Glad you like it - Cheers !
That pasteeee looks great mate .😄😄😄😄👍👍
It was!
Back in the 1960s, my family spent many holidays in Penny cottage, Polperro. My dad actually managed to drive our car over that bridge but then got stuck as the turns at the end are too tight. Happy days.
IS THE CAR STILL THERE ?
Polperro my favourite spent quite a few holidays there
Been there loads of times lovely village
Been there liked it very much. Its high on my list of south coast seaside towns from dorset to Cornwall that's a joy to visit
Yeah cornwall is fantastic especially in summer devon is great too
A really good tour of Polperro I've never been there, but your film has been both an education and an invitation to visit this fantastic town.
Thank you. Check out my video of Port Isaac. More to come soon
@mikesaunders.. it's a Village matey. 👍
GLAD TO SEE THAT LOVELY SUNSHINE. IT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE
It sure does especially when filming in 4K ! Cheers
I love this place, it looks beautiful in the video you have made. If it’s tricky parking you can get there by walking from Looe if and you get a great sense of journey. Then you can have a few beers in the pub and walk back in the evening on a beautiful summers day. 👌
Yep. Parking was a bit of a drag especially the "coins only" meter. We had to scrounge for change. Im an avid walker. Had I known about the trek from Looe I'd have surely taken it. I'll be back though !
@@arturotraveller3761 Definitely worth the hike! Enjoy!
Blimey you must be fit that's got to be 5 miles at least.
@@pillred5974 definitely a bit of a long hike! It was a summer day and an incredible crab sandwich and a few pints of Doombar at the Blue Peter really helped. My wife was really dragging her feet on the way back! 🤣
@@pillred5974 especially after a few !
Fantastic video, recommended the coastal walk from Looe to Polperro next time you're there.
I’ll be giving that a go next time round !
PS - thank you !
Good day ! proper enjoyed your joy ! I was born in Bankstown ! 10 pound pom father from Newlyn
Aus Irish mother ! Still live in Cornwall , Cheers 1
From Bankstown to Cornwall. WOW ! My friend you have quite literally found heaven on earth !
@@arturotraveller3761 Thanks for getting back . Yep been back and forth to Nelson Bay NSW , then back to Cornwall ,then to Sydney for work , Germany, Cambridgeshire then back to Cornwall .Me and my Wife live outside Camborne,
If you like a bit of History it is where Richard Trevithick invented the first steam vehicle ." The Puffing Devil" Trevithick day is once a year in the town . Tis a celebration of all things Steam .Worth a look on u Tube.
UK can be a drag in the winter , but have to go with the flow ! Where in Aus do you live ? regards Graham
Polperro is an amazing place. I first visited it some forty-five years ago and try to go if ever I am in Cornwall.
IT SO lovely there ,I haven't been for about year's. BUT my family live in Cornwall. And we THINK are sellvers very lucky to have family in Cornwall. Take care and all the best. 😊😊👍👍👍👍
It’s beautiful there
Wonderful and amazing 😊 Nice features i love it
I RECOMMEND THE CRUMPLEHORN HOTEL & PUB! 👍🇬🇧👌
Lovely little gem this place fella. Lots of others around the UK also so I hope you got to see as many as possible. All about them Paaaaaasstys. Excellent video mate. Nice one!
Thank you for your kind words. I'm glad yuou enjoyed it. More to come soon from all over the UK and Ireland
I live in Nz but moved here from Cornwall. I saw a painting of Polperro in a local op shop. It was awful but of course I had to buy it. Love that place 😊
It’s not picture you bought but the nostalgia you felt. No place like home.
Spent some lovely holidays in Polperro years ago. Many happy hours in the Three Pilchards pub. Last time I was there there was a disastrous storm and flood, October1976, I think.
The seawall fixed that
I think they may be owned by people all around the country, not just London
Did you visit Boscastle it's absolutely beautiful too.
Thank you for the video.
I never got to Bocastle on this trip but there will be another one. Thanks for watching and for your kind words
I wouldn't leave your pasty lying around like that.....the gulls in Cornwall have learnt there's many a free meal to be had off the tourists!! I was in the Three Pilchards pub there only last Saturday.
Not a chance !
THAT APPLIES TO EVERY COASTAL AREA, THE GULLS ARE A DANGER TO CHILDREN EATING THEIR ICE CREAM ETC
There is only one Y in Pasty and it comes at the end, not in the middle. It is not pronounced Pay-stee. 🙄😖
Super vid & enthusiasm.
Thank you !
My Great Great Grandmothers home town
If you think Polperro is stunning you ought to see some of the other places around Kernow!😊
I did and yes, stunning is the word. Check the video on Port Isaac. More soon! Cheers
Don’t worry, in time plenty will visit this lovely little town. Mass immigrants….and they will change it like they will with most towns. Enjoy it while you can.
What are you talking about?! The indigenous rich have forced locals out by buying up homes for holiday use which has a knock on effect on the now even more limited housing stock. Keep your negative opinions off these lovely positive channels 🙄
@@moominmay negative opinions, is that, the kettle calling the pot black? It the locals fault for selling their homes to the highest bidder and has nothing to do with the fact that in 2036, by national statistics own figure there will be another 6 million migrant in this country, some of which will no doubt will be heading to this pretty little town. Additionally, I will post my opinions on any y tube channel that I feel obliged to comment on, irrespective whether others may agree or disagree with my comments. You do not have to read them. 🤛🏼
Fair call ! This however, is a simple travel vlog focussing on the beauty of the village. I never imagined it would be conflated with real estate pricing or prevailing sentiments on immigration (rightly, wrongly, illegal or otherwise). Nonetheless opinions matters albeit the subject of some disagreement. Cheers !
You need to visit Portmeirion for an out of this UK experience.
It is now on the list for my next visit
Portmeirion on the coast of North wales where the Prisoner was filmed in the Italian village, they have a beautiful range of pottery of the same name. You could visit our castles too.
Not just pirates, slavers used to raid Cornwall as well, spiriting people away in the dead of night.
Hence the narrow winding streets. This was also common right throughout Europe as well
Charming vlog
thank you
Rest assured, South Australians know how to pronounce Pasty, thanks to the many Cornish miners who settled there in the mid to late 1800s.
Oh no ! We’re not making this a SA V NSW thing are we ? 😂That’s so interesting I never knew that about SA. Cheers
@@arturotraveller3761 it's pass-T.
i'VE BEEN READING THIS , FROM WEREVER THE MINER'S EMMIGRATED TO, AROUND THE WORLD.
And not a Maccydees in sight!, Bliss!
@@cupidstunt4402 let’s hope it stays that way !
Have been here. Unique place, pub parking is a bit difficult if I remember rightly
Parking was a bit of challenge. Best to drive in early especially in peak season. I was there in May 2023
@@arturotraveller3761 yeah, I was there peak season too - I think 3 or 4 years ago
Late May 2019 😀
The pottery isn't local, it's a very high quality pottery made by a company called 'Moorcroft' and is highly collected.
Smuggling was a huge industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Oll an Gwella!
Ha dhiso-jy ynwedh! Thank you ! Seems Cornish is so rare not even Google can translate it. Had to look that one up ! Cheers
It is quite correct that people don't know what's on their doorstep! Sadly getting the weather right is another matter. The U.K has 1,000 islands that's correct 1,000! With some beeches looking as though they've been pulled from the Caribbean and are totally unspoilt.
One of the great discoveries I made throughout my trip. Places you usually associate with the Mediterranean. Wonderful
I have been to Newquay twice and have been down as far as Truro, CORNWALL is Magnificent, Little known fact is that CORNWALL is part of the Crown Estates of the Monarch, but is not officially part of England, anymore. Check the History and you will see.
I’ve since learnt. Cornwall is one of the six Celtic Nations of the UK !
That is very interesting to know, thanks.
Wonderful video! You’ve eaten the pasty very wrong though!! You’re supposed to hold it by the crimp (the swirly thick part), technically you’d throw that part away in tradition of how the miners would eat them. Too tasty to do that these days though 😎
Thank for your kind words. As for the eating of the pasty, I’ll be taking your advice next time I eat one. Problem is you just can’t get pasties like that in Sydney, Australia - Cheers !
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what a ridiculously dumb thing to say " eaten the pasty wrong" 🤣
is he a tin miner from the 1900's ???
no he is not !!
he can eat it any way he bloody well wants !!! unbelievable 😂😂
I really think using words like “dumb” and “unbelievable”, just show how “dumb” and “unbelievable” you are! To not have the ability to recognise that my polite and lighthearted words about the traditions of a Cornish pasty were a well thought out comment to support the channel. All whilst posting a fun piece of information!
You also seem to lack the ability to observe surrounding evidence, so I’ll highlight the fact that the channel owner has responded to my comment and clearly received it in the way it was intended.
Meaning you must be ridiculously unbelievably dumb!
Oh and by the way, although yes mining still continued into the 1900’s, in context of the miners eating pasty’s it would of made more sense for you to of put either the 1600’s or 1700’s as this is when it was much more commonplace. Of course I’d never call you dumb for this though.
Well done
He's eating it out of the bag like a proper local!
Go here to visit here every year .never stay in a cottage ,they should be for villagers only and at a reasonable price x.i love ve polperro
All the best people sit and dangle legs over a parapet whilst eating pasties! Excellent.
We get it ! We know and lobe that its the "little things" that make life so wonderful _ Cheers !
Lime kiln cottage note: not a potters cottage! Limestone was brought in by sea and you can see lime kilns all around the coast. Limestone was burnt to create quicklime, and this was used to in construction (mortar, plaster, whitewash etc) but mainly to put on the land to make it less acid.
I never stop learning. It’s fascinating the amount of insight in these comments. Thank you
Anyone going there expect to be ripped off with parking fees.
One of the few ways the county can recoup some of the cost to services and infrastructure that tourism costs them.
Obviously the foreign influx haven’t reached out that far yet, hence why it looks beautiful and so peaceful, but give it time, it won’t be long before they come and destroy that lovely port.
You actually made that comment on an Aussie tourist/immigrant channel.
Are we all to be racists now father. [Father ted]
@@garygalt4146urgh! Exactly! Increasingly I’m finding embittered old men usually, flooding comments on beautiful videos like this just to spout this one negative sentiment without any reference to what the video itself is about. I’m convinced they’re not even watching them lol but just copying g and pasting their hate before searching fir the next 🙄
I'd never heard of "Father Ted". I looked it up. Don't think we ever got the show in Australia but I now get the comment just the same.
Yep... Polperro isa winner!
Oh dear, 0:38, Cornish Paste-ee!! Pasty, Pasty, Pasty
Yep noted ! I corrected myself when I was sitting on the bridge eating it ! Cheers !
I lived about six miles away from Polperro but have only visited it three times, each time by boat. Even as a teenager 50 years ago the car parking prices were too high to make it worthwhile. It’s very pretty but there are better places to visit in the area.
tell us where !
This is happening all over the country to the lovely seaside towns. Here in Felixstowe it has started already. Lots of Airbnb, holiday rentals. Results very little on the market for locals to rent. It usually is the beginning of the end for a town when this happens. I blame the government policies but local councils can do a lot to control it.
0:40 Cornish pastie not pasty.
I think it's pasty in the UK
@@marypiper8161 worth a thought
I really did try my best to correct myself ! You know, when in Rome and all that - Cheers !
@@andyeasy3320 it is pronounced with a long ah but it is still spelled pasty, not to be confused with 'pasty' looking washed out !!
Thanks, I've been spelling it as "pastie". I stand corrected
Shame about the parking, wouldn't be so bad if the authorities didn't treat visitors as cash cows.
What is a paystee?
Since when has Polppero been a Town!
My Grandfather was the policeman in Polperro(the only one) it's where my mother grew up. And my great great great Grandfather skippered an open top lugger from Newlyn to Australia a couple hundred years ago, I'm sensing a slight Aussie accent?
That’s because I’m an Aussie ! What a fascinating family history
@@arturotraveller3761 Haha yes I thought you were a cousin jack! Thanks for the reply.
@@sly6627 My pleasure. By the way during the video, I pointed out the Policeman’s Cottage. Is that where your grandfather lived ?
@@arturotraveller3761 I think that was his office/station as my mother said where they lived their kitchen was 'across the way' as she put it and they had to carry the water from the kitchen to the main cottage to have a bath. This was in the 40's. I'll ask her tomorrow she's still going strong.
Amazing ! I can only imgaine what life must have been like back then. We've come a long way
I have lived in North Cornwall for the past 28 years and I can tell you 'idyllic' little towns such as Polperro, Mevagissey, Fowey and Looe are bloody murder in the last spring, summer and early autumn. Crowded? It's often as bad a Leicester Sq on a good day.
OK, this is from a visitor and a non-Brit and as he's on holiday he's enjoying the change. But most of the south coast is twee little tourist trap with a fake 'traditional' and 'authentic' gloss, mainly provided by incomers who have started a business.
And the point has already been made that far, far, far too many of the homes are second homes (rarely visited).
Patrick, my video as you point out is through the rose coloured glasses of a bloke on tour but if it has helped to increase awareness (in its own small way) albeit of a different issue, I take some pride in that - Cheers ! Oll an Gwella
There are hundreds of places in the UK just as attrective. Cornwall is excessively over hyped to its overrun with tourists. Far better to go elsehere and avoid the hordes.
Tell us where ? please....
Get a map and head to places which are 10 mins away from other well known places. You could have gone to Downderry also near to Polperro. Walking the coast path is a good way to explore.
Ignore the hype around the Cotswolds, Stonehenge, Cornwall, York, Stratford upon Avon etc. Yes these places are attractive and interesting and if you don't mind rubbing shoulders with half the world's population fine. The fact is though that anywhere in the UK will give you stunning scenery, pretty towns and villages, castles and churches and stately homes. Buy a good guide and do some research. Then just choose a location and explore. Of course it will take a lifetime to explore it all. Best plan is not to try to see places far apart. It takes a lot longer to get around than you think. Go for a locality such as Shropshire, Norfolk, Scottish Borders or Pembrokeshire for example and you will never forget it.
Derbyshire, the peak district.@@arturotraveller3761
All noted. This won't be my last trip to the UK.
Past eee
Do you live there ? Unless you are rich no you dont.
This county has been “scoured out” by second homes, (and third homes?) and AIRB&B . Nothing for locals who need homes to actually live in! I accept that it takes one person to sell, to allow another person to buy up, but the prices only allow wealthy folk from up the line to buy into eg.Polperro! The county cannot recover from the onslaught that started in earnest some ?20? years ago. Cornwall is certainly not the only county to suffer this fate. Sad, very sad, as many of these folk don’t give a fig for the places they’ve bought into, except maybe when they rock up for their 2 or 3 weeks in July/August!
Its beautiful isnt it.
My word it is !
Beautiful but 6 quid for a pasty, bloody pirates the lot of them :)
Yeah ! I kinda felt an Oggy for 12 Aussie Dollars ( double the hit) was a bit much but here’s thing. I didn’t pay for the pasty I paid to sit on that bridge and eat it ! That was a bargain at any price - Cheers !
Cornwall is beautiful, I've been to Polperro several times.
I still prefer Devon though
Isn’t it a picture. I never got to stop off in Devon in this trip. I’ll surely meander down that way again next time round - Cheers
Nah.. Cornwall all the time. Devon is it’s soft sister.. 😊🇮🇱🏴🇬🇧
Ill be visiting the "Soft Sister" next time round !
St. Ives could be so much more than it is, but sadly it’s covered in touristic tat, and while I do like Cornwall, the Cotswolds are in another league
I’ll soon be uploading my series on the Cotswolds. Another magical part of the world . Stay tuned. In the meantime check out Bibury ruclips.net/video/8MgvNpM5RwQ/видео.htmlsi=RDBJ2yNihJIec1Ut
@@arturotraveller3761 Check out a Clovelly, Hope Cove, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Noss Mayo/ Newton Ferrers, Bigbury Island and its sea tractor, the South Hams area in general with Salcombe (most expensive coastal real estate in the UK) and Dartmouth
Very expensive carpark .
Depends on what you call expensive. As I recall it was 7-8 pounds. Comapred to similar parking in Europe and what we pay in Sydney around the trousit district it was cheap and that considering it was $15 Aussie. Cheers ! BTW - the cost of the parking was worth it
But crowds mean a place is noce
There is another way of seeing this. It’s a tourist trap and nearly all those houses are second homes and holiday lets. Not a place l would choose to go.
You can't visit Polperro without leaving England.What planet are these people from?
When he was calling it Paysty at the start I wanted to rip my eyeballs out. The girl behind the counter must have thought, what is this guy on?
It's pretty obvious he's an Aussie so go easy. He wasn't speaking Swahili.
You wanted to rip your eyeballs out and you’re wondering what I’m on ?😂😂😂 Love the banter lad ! Cheers
Well 20,000 Cornishman can’t be wrong unlike a lone Englishman
Your better off east of the Tamar
These video clip travelogue guides are always misleading. Try visiting - or living in - such a place in the middle of Winter when it's freezing cold and p*ssing down with rain. It might dissuade a few people from such an idyllic place !
This video is not about coming to Polperro to live. It is about visiting Polperro and enjoying its beauty for what it is.
@@arturotraveller3761oops some people getting quite annoyed about you simply commenting on the beauty of the place - eek! 😅
Yeh, get right. Cornish Passsssty. Pas, not pay !
GOT IT ! I actually corrected myself sitting on the bridge eating it ! Yummo
Why dhoulnt it be inbengland. What's wrongvwith holiday cottages so people can have a holiday who might come from a not so good part of englandv
NEW FLOOD GATES 😂
Not a patch on North Yorkshire seaside towns like Filey, Whitby, Robin Hoods Bay, Runswick etc.
Spent 3 nights in Whitby. What a beautiful town. Not really comparing "apples with apples" though. One is a picturesque, the other historic. Whitby one of the highlights of my trip. Will soon be uploading the video - cheers
Pasty? pronounced Pass-ty
Pass tee not pace tee,
The whole village is owned by one family , very strict on how it should appear
It’s a treasure worth preserving forever
You are mixing it up with a Clovely in North Devon. Polperro is not owned by one family. Houses are freely bought and sold on the open market and the roads are not private,
Sorry , yes was clovelly I got mixed up with lol
How long will it be before they put an illegal immigrant site there?!
Cornish "pastey"!!?? What on earth is that? You should hav tried a Cornish pasty. Proper job!!
That's what I had in the end
Get rid of the selfie stick and stay out of vision!
Hahaaa Cheers mate ! 🧂
Best leave it at this point
DCC,
Nonono. Not a paste - ee. For F’s sake. It’s a pastie.
Paahsty not paysty
When in Rome….
Paahsty..? 😂
Eat an Oggy anyway you like!!!
Thank you ! I’ve copped a bit of flack for the pronounciation and for the eating method ! At least I have fellow Oggy eater on side
Paah-stee not Pay-stee
It’s pronounced P ass sty not paysty.
I corrected this later in the video having been politely corrected by a lady in the shop !
£5.25 for a pastie are u nuts?
At 12 Aussie dollars you could say I am but I didn’t pay just for the pastie, I paid to sit on that bridge and eat it. For me that was a bargain at any price