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Digitalia

Digital Abstracts

By Steve Wilde

St. Ives
May 06, 2009

We spent last weekend in St. Ives to see the Ben Nicholson exhibit at the Tate before it closed. As is always the way on bank holiday weekends the weather was pretty overcast until a few hours before we were due to catch the train. But I got some photos in on Tuesday morning on our short walk along the coastal path, which is looking pretty battered after the recent floods.

Sunday night we had a fantastic meal at the Alba. I had the terrine of confit chicken and duck, brandied grape chutney and Sam had the steamed Fowey mussels in Cornish cider, apple and cream to start. Followed by Cornish navarin of lamb, cannellini beans, rosemary dumplings for me and mackerel in mango and coconut with steamed rice for Sam. With a bottle of Fairview Viognier and a selection of cheeses. All overlooking the harbour.

So we visited the Tate on Monday morning, which also included the bonus of seeing the Luke Frost works after his year as artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios. Which added a nice line of progression as Ben Nicholson formerly had his studio in the same place. Odd things Nicholson's works. He seems to have spent many years gathering other peoples styles, magpie like, before coming out the end with a style of his own. Probably not the best atist to have emerged from the St. Ives scene but an important mover and shaker.

As it wasn't the brightest of days on Monday morning we thought we'd catch the bus over to Penzance and see if it was any brighter there. Sam hadn't visited Marazion, Newlyn or Mousehole before. The 17B took us through Marazion to Penzance and we walked to Newlyn and Mousehole from there. By the time we reached Mousehole though we had to jump back on the bus to get back to St. Ives in time for our meal at the Porthminster Cafe.

With an even better view than last night, overlooking St. Ives Bay and Godrevy lighthouse, Sam had crispy fried squid with citrus white miso, crispy shallots and black spices. I had a carrot and fennel soup, which was very warm and a bit too large. Followed by pan fried local plaice fillets with hand picked Cornish crab, celeriac remoularde, roasted pepper salad and sauce verte, while I had the fillet [except there were no fillets left so I had to have a different cut] of Cornish lamb, sweet potato, grilled feta, pea and spinach puree with olive tapenade. Which was very good but I think the Alba had the edge this time around. We might have been a bit knackered from the walk though. It was a very early night but with the ridiculously steep walk up to the Porthminster Hotel first.

I finished Margaret Wertheim's excellent Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet on the journey back to London. Which an analysis of the geography of space, exploring the changing concepts of both physical and spiritual space from the Middle Ages to the present day. Could do with a post Facebook update though.

Categories: Art, Photography, Books, Blogging, Food & Drink, Travel

See my flickr set: St. Ives 2009

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