‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism | Cornwall - eviltoast
‘It’s just a rich man’s playground now’: how St Ives became patient zero of British overtourism
www.theguardian.com
The Cornish resort may be the picturebook seaside town but, through a desolate winter and a crowded summer, artists, fishers, visitors and locals reveal a community in danger of losing its soul
  • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    The thing that made me the saddest about this was when someone said that the second home owners don’t donate to the food bank.

    • nickb333@fedia.io
      7·
      3 months ago

      I’m sure they quoted one instance of a holiday home owner donating all surplus food at the end of their stay.

      Even so, some visitors donate. Wallis says a Swiss couple give £500 each year. People ring and ask him to collect excess food from their holiday cottage when they leave.