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NEW YEAR COUNTDOWN in Cornwall

It’s normally fairly late in October when Rosemary’s and my workplaces decide on their Christmas and New Year opening hours, and the staff holiday availability. With this determined for 2019, we realised we would be able to take a break in our caravan for New Year.

Where to go? Well, we had previously spent Hogmanay in Edinburgh, where we had an amazing time, but the weather really wasn’t kind, and threw everything from snow to gales and driving rain at us.

With this in mind, we were attracted to St Ives, in Cornwall – partly because the release of fireworks at midnight from the harbour, which would be reflected in the water below, sounded wonderful. But also on the promise of a milder climate.

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The only trouble was that many other people seemed to have had the same

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