20180607 St Ives (rest day)

Date: 20180607

Stay: The Queens Hotel, St Ives

Activities

A rest day today, in St Ives. St Ives is very touristy, more than when we were here in 2009.

I start the day with housekeeping. I first go to the launderette to do the laundry. Then I walk a bit through St Ives, mainly around the harbor and the coast.

In the afternoon I go looking for the St Ives Brewery. That is located a bit up the hill with the Brewhouse Cafe on top. After some searching I find it and the rest of the afternoon I spend there tasting the brews and sitting comfortably, reading in the lounge corner.
From the Brewhouse Cafe you have a nice view of St Ives.

It starts to rain around 15:30-16:00. That was not predicted… But, no problem, if I want to go back to the village below, I’ll just take the bus. The bus stops in front of the Brewhouse Cafe at the large parking lot and for £ 1.00 I am transported down dry.

So it was a real rest day again. I did not do much more than just wandered around, read and drink beer 🙂

Weather

The usual weather, cloudy and a pleasant temperature. Except that it started raining around 3:30 PM. Not very hard, but enough to get wet if you walk through it for a long time. Fortunately, I was not walking.

Lyric of the day

For some reason, a tune is constantly playing through my mind today. Since there is little more happening, I appoint that to the lyrics of the day. It is Paradise In Distress by the Golden Earring, a brilliant song:

Devil just bought a brand new
Devil just bought a brand new
Devil just bought a brand new penthouse in heaven
There goes the old neighbourhood
There goes the old neighbourhood
There goes the good old neighbourhood on a one way trip to hell
(Shake you sinner)

Jesus won’t drive nothin’ but a shiny white Mercedes
And all the angels gotta settle for second hand Oldsmobile’s
The virgin Mary loses faith and starts a chain-reaction
The Lord just stands there weepin’ bitter tears in the rain
Ain’t that a shame…
(Shake you sinner!)

Almost as if the bad guys, got the good guys on the run
All in the line of expectation, in the eyes of the evil one
Like a mad bull chargin’ through a closet of porcelain ‘Made in China’
Saddlin’ up the righteous, with nightmares full of trauma

Devil just bought a brand new
Devil just bought a brand new
Devil just bought a brand new penthouse in heaven
There goes the old neighbourhood
There goes the old neighbourhood
There goes the good old neighbourhood movin’ on down to hell

There’s no one here, there’s nothin’ left
No one here to kiss or bless
This damp and dark unholy mess
You could say: Paradise in distress
(Shake you sinner)

Behind the clouds there’s a silver line
The sun just can’t stop waitin’
To put a shine on a clear blue sky
And kill the pessimist in me
Meanwhile, there’s no one here, there’s nothin’ left
No one here to kiss or bless
This damp and dark unholy mess
You could say: Paradise in distress
(Shake you sinner)

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