This ST Ives , Cornwall
A seaside town , likely fishing based , shipping
To -day , tourism is big , us and the others.
The town climbs up the hills in all directions
There is a rule of navigation , going home , you go uphill , when you get level , watch out b/c you need to know where you are.
Our room is up 3 flights and thats OK b/c everything is this local is up 3 flights
Except for McDs on the road , we have tried to eat local food , fish pie , crab tart and steak and mushroom pie etc.
In a town the size of our shopping mall back home - we got lost
We knew where we were but not the restaurant we had pre - chosen
Thus , we settled for the safe choice , the Sloop Inn , oldest in St Ives. The pub has you walk to the bar and order drinks. For food , the same , walk up , give your table # and order. Food is brought to your table.
EE is our service provider for cell and data. I've explained the deal we got and how pleased we were. Yesterday , EE had a fit !. We went from ' your service has expired ' message to the original promised call , text and data limits , back to the real numbers - all in 2 - 3 hours.We figure that we may be OK now.
I'm using the i Phone map function but other than ' pinning ' the public washroom and finding roughly where I am - I'm not confident in navigating w/ the map function.
This town is laid out in a semi - circle but not everyone who built a street or lane was in on the plan.
We wander down the hill , find the tourists and roughly follow the ' bread crumbs ' so to speak.
Loads of art galleries , and the nautical theme is everywhere.
I look at the
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