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Tow Bars BristolShort Story - Strangers

We arrived more than two hours later than expected, but the west of the light of the summer in England had not yet disappeared, even at dusk. A soft golden glow comes more and more through the sunset, which was tinged with a flat calm sea beyond the village of tumbling. We were tourists here, strangers in this small crowded place.

For us, it was just part of a tour, a long weekend together snatched from the clutches of our handsets, demanding careers. I felt totally liberated, this beautiful evening as we walked the quarter mile ahead on the steep dry pavement from the parking required in the village car-free time and advertising requirements for once limited outside limitations of this small place. And I could tell from the spring to the step of Jenny that his battles with substance sets in Lewisham were now further from our three days on the road.

There was a small gift shop, a place of jewel tourist trap, a few hundred meters along the route. I bought the magazine for our early departure from St. Ives refused to give me my daily dose of political gossip now long established as an essential part of my adoption into the life of London. I explained we were strangers here, led on the road side in the hope of finding something interesting and it had nothing booked.

The dealer said we had three options - the Old Hotel just down the street, a bed and breakfast on the harbor bottom or farm near the junction with the main road where we turned off .

"It was different years ago, he said, when many people used to stay longer, but now it's every day trippers and holiday homes. Ten years ago we had a half-dozen houses, but they all closed. "

The Old Hotel was just two hundred meters from the shop, at the head of the creek steep sheltered tangled triangle of the village. He was a bit beyond the price paid and we usually had supervised AA stars over its reception, but we came to the place and controlled, just for one night. It was the kind of Saint-Jacques mock Inn in black and white, including the lack of a straight line would have just suggested it was original. But the beams were hollow and plaque above the entrance said, "1958 rebuilt."

"Did you bring the baggage car?" Called to the receptionist. The name tag pinned to her bodice said: "Hilary, manager. "We have a man with a donkey and the sled back to you." She was not joking.

I raised our two hold-alls and said that everything we had. She smiled, with politeness, but tinged communicate the knowledge of Judgement. There was a time when it was still unusual for a couple to sign show without wanting to appear married.

We took the key for room number six. There were only eight and seven other keys are still hanging on their hooks when we took the elevator - Yes, the elevator! - On the top floor. Number six was in the back, of course, just above the hood and kitchen overlook a courtyard with a corrugated plastic roof yellow. He concealed an array of bins without cover, from which a hint of sweet aroma still air when we opened the windows to encourage cigarette smoke from the previous occupant vacated. We dropped the bags and headed for the sea to absorb the last of the late spring sun, at its inception.

The beach was shingle and small, beaten against a wall of the port which has provided a good fifty meters in the shallow sea. A couple of buildings clap, largely rotten, clung to its importance, their past use of long, but their structures, but all the others. There were missing doors and a structure has no interior, entry uncovered simply revealing the sky beyond. At one point, clearly, the locals had something to live for this place, so.

Posted on February 17, 2010.
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