24 — Sunday, June 7, 1998 — North Shore News Secure your Car, and Secure an Autoplan discount! Visit BCAA at our NEW North Shore location and ask about our Autopian discounts. Get the BCAA Vehicle Anti-Theft System north shore news ->'TRAVEL Cornwall caters to the tourism Neville Judd Contributing Writer PORT Quin, U.K: Samuel Symons knew how to have a good time. A boozer, gambler and all- round party animal, Symons took hedonism so seriously he built a castle in which to rave. More than 170 years later Doyden Castle still cverlooks Lundy Bay and the sleepy Cornish hollow of Port Quin, a village so deserted that per- manent residents could meet in a phone box without rub- bing shoulders. Though his ample wine bins remain on the lower ground floor as testament to the good times, things have guictened down considerably since Symons drank his last. North Cornwall in England’s West Country is as close as anyone gets to the days when an Englishman’s home was his castle. On the cliffs of Pentire Head, with only sheep for company, it’s possible to forget that more than 50 milhon people inhab- it the British Isies. That's what makes England’s west- ernmost county so popular with tourists and why visitors outnumber locals two to one in summer. But for the intervention of the National Trust, a charity dedicated to preserving Britain’s heritage, develop- ment proposals in 1936 might have altered the sheer clits, smugglers’ coves and quaint fishing villages in this area. The Trust has since pre- served one third of Cornwall’s coastline, as dra- matic as any in Europe. In the early 19th century about 90 people lived in Port Quin, most of them fishing for pilchard, mining lead or getting plastered with Symons. Today, the National ‘Trust owns almost al! of the village’s remaining stone cot tages and rents them as hoti>” day homes. Carolina Cellar, for exam- ple, used to be a fish process ing shed, where huge hauls of pilchard were salred and 3) re | Li 4 | wd pressed into barrels for export. Now it’s a one-bed- room cottage and doesn't even smell of fish. Doyden Casde and its nearest neigh- bor, Doyden House, five ininutes walk away, are also Trust properties, Exposed to the North Adantic’s fury, Doyden House could be the Wickanninish of England's west coast. Storm-force winds and rain greeted our arrival in . mid-April after a five-hour drive from London (where it was snowing). Huge globs of foam blown from the, crash-" ing waves 30 metres below: made the rain look like sleer. The sight of a sodden, ~ wind-blown figure attempting to shut the trunk of a.car. by’, hanging off it might have secmed odd to anyone there to witness it. But only ‘Sheep watched as the unk ‘finally clicked shut and the wind” returned to pummeling the century-old house and the © house martins secking: refuge : under its caves. mA See Isolated, page 25° teams of experienced art teachers a and some Canada’ 8 finest antists.. : installed, and you'll qualify for a special discount off your Autopian. drawing, painting, sculpture & raku for ages 13-18, July 5-10 ‘wn Marcus Bowe! it t Doug Biden’ & Wayne Ngan drawing, painting, sculpture & raku for ages 8-12, July 12-17 wit Charles van Sandwyk _ plus guest artist visits & daily recreation activities including canoeing, swimming, hiking, archery, cave exploration & outdoor challenge games. all in the beautiful 460 acre setting of North Vancouver Outdoor School situated near Squamish, B.C. fully supervised by professional teaching staff | six days & five nights $549 inclusive . partial scholarships & bursaries available BCAA Insurance AGENCY a | 333 Brooksbank (in Park & Tilford in Save-On-Foods) North Vancouver Tel: 990-1546 for more information please contact the Artists For Kids office 810 West 21st St, North Vancouver, B.C. V7P 2c) (604) 987-6667 or fax (604) 987-6967 e-mail: bmacdonald @nvancrv.schdist44.be.ca. internet: wew.artiststkids.com