This was painted on the spot when Rachel and I stayed there in 2004, long before it became the background for the television series ‘Doc Martin’, the film ‘Ladies in Lavender’ and the folk group ‘The Fishermen’ who actually are fishermen in the village.
The view is from the hill above the village, near where Doc Martin’s surgery was placed, and resembles a picture by Breugel or Bosch.
On this holiday we visited Boscastle. A week later it was swept away by a deluge.
