HIS AND HERS...

One of the best walks along the Cornish coastpath is from West Pentire, just south of Crantock, down to Polly Joke and up to Kelsey Head.  From there you can look across to the seal colony on the island known as The Chick and also look out to Carter`s Rocks, off Holywell Bay.   And along the way you pass a series of small coves, like this one:-

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You quite expect to see Ross Poldark and his chums doing a bit of smuggling or even, having cast his scythe to one side, Ross raising the female temperature by stripping off and having a dip in the sea.  One evening we spent time in a local hostelry - one of the inescapable Rick Stein`s - in St. Merryn and, feeling the call of nature, I visited the `conveniences,` where it was encouraging to see that the door to the ladies was marked `Demelzas` and the gentlemen`s was marked `Rosses.`  No, I wasn`t sure it worked either.