The scene of our most raucous pub crawl was the tiny unassuming fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall. With a population of 1200 supporting six pubs you can see that these people like to party at the pub! Sadly, I didn’t take photos of the 40-something-year-old ‘schoolchildren’ or the ‘tarts and vicars’ out that night, but we finished the evening with them at The Three Pilchards on the quayside. I hope no-one strayed near the water.
Jude of Travel Words and the earth laughs in flowers has invited me to join in with this challenge. Jude is an accomplished photographer/traveler/garden enthusiast so while out and about stays grounded and records everything with wonderfully entertaining results.
There are only two rules for this challenge:
- On 5 consecutive days, create a post using either a past or recent photo in B&W.
- Each day invite another blog friend to join in the fun.
Today I would like to nominate James and Terri at Gallivance to take part in the challenge. They’ve lived in five countries and gallivanted around 61 countries in their life-long travels. From scanned photos to artfully crafted digital photos, and an eye for detail, they showcase culture and humanity in their blog posts in a most engaging way.
the photo is so rich in this tone – feel the water and the different houses- and I read the above comment about what photo would have looked like – ha!
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Middle-aged. In their forties. Think they were old enough to drink. Should have been old enough to know they looked silly!
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The town appears quaint and unassuming in black and white, although your words paint a colorful picture. 😀 😀 😀
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We were surprised to say the least to see middle-aged ‘school children’ drinking pints! 🙂
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School children? Way too young. Not good.
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This is a place that has always fascinated me. Perfect for a black and white photo.
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Reblogged this on zhussipovmarkhabat.
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A a pub crawl… I shall do this adventure one day. Who knows… I may dress for the occasion as well. 😉
Neat photo! Came out great in black and white!
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Let me know when you do. I’ll join you!
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Yea Baby!!! 😉
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🙂
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A part of the world I’ve always wanted to see. Excellent photo of the harbour…they dress up for pub crawls??
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Not always and we certainly didn’t! I think we were lucky to see the locals at their silliest. Cornwall is a wonderful county. We love it. Put it on your travel itinerary?
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Nice B&W pic, Carol. I loved Polperro. We had a late lunch at The Blue Peter, and there was certainly a lot of drinking and jollification going on there. 🙂
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Jollification. I like that. I think we should organise a big blogger meet in Cornwall. Sue Slaght and Joanne Sisco are already keen and everybody, including Jude loves it there. MM at Multifarious Meanderings is from there. Wouldn’t that be fun?
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Thanks for the nomination and for the kind words Carol. This sounds like a fun challenge and we’ll be pulling something together soon. I’ve always thought that B&W photography separated the good photographers from the dabblers like me, but I’ll give it a go. I’ll give you a heads-up before we publish. ~James
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That’s brilliant, James and you’re hardly a dabbler. What a thing to say! I’d never done black and white before Jude convinced me to have a go and I enjoyed the challenge. I hope you do too.
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You? Go on a pub crawl, Carol? And I thought you woz such a nice gel! 😀
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I am a nice gel! The bad gels dressed up as school gels.
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I’ve never been on a pub crawl and I suddenly feel like my education is lacking!! They have themes? I must get myself to Cornwall asap!
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I’ve just invited Sue to Cornwall. You need to come too! It’s a bit further for you to travel than Niagara though.
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I want to! I want to!
As soon as I can, I’ll be there. I might be 80, but I’ll be there 🙂
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You said you were bored. Put it on the top of your list. 🙂
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I WAS bored … My trip to the float spa solved that problem.
Now I’m saving all my nickels for this summer’s trip to Sweden. I’ll wave to you as we fly over 🙂
If only I could get Gilles interested in a race in the UK. I’ll have to start looking but I have to be careful what I ask for … He’ll expect me to do the race too 😉
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London Marathon! Job done! You’ll need to get your skates on though for the 26th of April. There are 35,000 places available. You should be able to get two.
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The London Marathon is on our list. We tried twice to get in but it’s not necessarily easy.
I was thinking more of Ironman UK in Bolton. Gilles could race and I could simply … not 🙂
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Ooooo! Yes! Go for it!
Oh. Bum. General entry sold out.
2016?
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I’ll start working on him immediately 🙂
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Vacation 2016!
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Haha, alcohol features regularly on this blog 😛
I don’t think I have been on a pub crawl since I was about 19 years old – and yes – that was a long time ago!!
Fab shot of the harbour – love the light and the clarity of this photo. You do B&W well my friend 🙂
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You’re too kind. Or are you just being nice ’cause you made me do this challenge? 😉
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Nah, I don’t do ‘nice’ Carol 🙂
They really are good photos.
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Hmmm….a post about a pub this time. My dear, I’m starting to become seriously concerned. 🙂 LOL Oh, well, am convincing myself that with a transatlantic move and all that comes with it, there is a reason for all this excessive focus on pubs/alcohol, etc. 🙂 Lovely pic! Sounds like a wonderful outing!
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Oh no! ! forgot you would see this! In my defense, pubs are part of the British culture. And with drink/drive laws being what they are pubs are closing down at an alarming rate. I’m only trying to preserve some of these cultural treasures. And in case you think we may be breaking the law, that’s why we crawl!
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Ahhhh….so you are now preserving national heritage! I see! I see! That makes huge difference, of course. Proceed at will! Long Live the Queen! 🙂
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. . . and I’ll bet she’s not averse to a pint or two herself. You’d need a drink living with Philip.
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Hah! That is very true! You are too much! Making me laugh this much is probably much more dangerous to one’s health than your pub crawls…..
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It could be if you’ve just taken a big slurp of beer.
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(burp!) 😉
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LOL!
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6 pubs for 1200 people sounds like a perfect setting for a pub crawl. 🙂 sounds like a post in the making! Gorgeous black and white of the scene of the fun.
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WP playing tricks on me today. I haven’t replied to you have I Sue? Sounds like I’ve started drinking already. Anyway . . . . I need to go back to Cornwall to take some more photos. Want to come?
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I’d like to come for sure and bring the wine. 🙂 First reply so no worries.
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Wot! ? No room temperature bitter beer for you?
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Ugh. I like my beer cold I am afraid. How will I survive?
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If we fail to find you a cold bottle of Bud, we’ll stick to wine. Or how about a road trip through the tunnel to stock up on wine? Not that we don’t have wine here but it’s such a fun thing to do. Don’t worry. We’ll survive. 🙂
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Oh I imagine we would Carol and with a story or two to tell at the end of it all. 🙂
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I’m not sure the stories would be fit to print. 😉
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We could do some editing. 🙂
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Heavy editing . . . but then it might be a boring story if we take all the ‘good’ bits out.
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That sounds like my kind of pub-crawl!
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It was brilliant, especially as it was unexpected. I like seeing people being silly as long as I don’t have to join in.
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PS. Do you know the Kit Hillbillies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A83nJyqo2Ic
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I didn’t, but I do now!
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I did some memorable pub crawls when I was younger (note use of comparative) – we Cornish folk know how to party 🙂 I remember one dressed as a baby (it rained and my toweling nappy got soaked) and one dressed as Dick Whittington’s cat. People kept pulling my tail and playing with my ears.
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I don’t know which image is more hilarious – probably the wet droopy nappy! So . . . are you all grown up now? ☺
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Am I buggery.
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Hahahaha. It was really a rhetorical question.
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Love the photo… but would love to hear more about the pub crawl…
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It was about ten years ago, BD. Memory’s a bit hazy but I have this image in my head of chubby 40-year-old men in short grey flannel shorts and women who should have known better with their hair in bunches and wearing short pleated skirts and fishnet stockings. I wasn’t a compulsive digital photographer then. Shame.
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