Looking for Roger's Place

Posted on 2008/06/27 16:25:58 (June 2008).

[Wednesday 25th June]
Given all the long hours at work this week (particularly the knowledge that tomorrow - my last day at work before our holiday - would inevitably be another late one) I thought it proper to have at least one evening where I left the office relatively early (well, after 7), and have a quiet relaxing evening.

So after dinner (Chie made a Spanish omelette) we sat down to watch a DVD - another one Chie had got from Love Film. It was a Vietnamese film called something like "In The Height of The Summer" and we both had a vague feeling we'd seen it before. I failed to find it very captivating though, I seemed to be much more interested in looking at maps of Cornwall in preparation for our holiday.

In particular, I have this picture on the wall of our flat that I am rather fond of. It's called "Roger's Place", and is a picture of a shack in a bay, with a view out to sea and along the coast. When I bought it I had no idea where it was at all. However, when my Uncle came to see he pointed out you could see what appeared to be large satellite dishes off in the distance, which he thought was probably Goonhilly Downs in Cornwall. So there was a good chance it was taken somewhere near the Lizard peninsula, which coincidentally is not too far from where we'll be staying next week.

So I spent some time on the web again trying to find where it was, and eventually scouring the coastline using Google Earth (which incidentally I don't use very often, and was hugely impressed with)... but alas to no avail. So instead I tried all sorts of image searches, and some combination of "shack" and "Cornwall" eventually found an image, that, albeit differently coloured, and from another angle, did look a bit like that same shack. Thankfully the image actually had the name of the place - Millook. Further searches for Millook found a lot more images of that iconic shack, untl I had managed to convince myself it was indeed one and the same place. Oddly, this was actually in North Cornwall though, and you wouldn't be able to see Goonhilly Downs there at all.

Anyway, I feel extremely satisfied that I've worked out where the picture is, and if although it's a bit of a trek from where we'll be staying next week, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that we could go on a bit of a road trip to actually find the place.

Sounds like you deserve some time off John, I hope you won't be tempted to "Work from home" whilst you are on holiday!!!

Posted by Kev at 2008/06/27 19:06:50.

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