ON a cold February morning what could be more inviting than a tasty bacon sandwich accompanied by a cup of piping hot tea or coffee to set one up for the day. Down in the Events Square and on Pendennis Point on the morning of Ellen MacArthur's arrival after her record breaking round the world voyage the fast food trailers provided just what we all needed.
What a pity David Lang, of Playing Place, director of the Cornish Tourism Forum, felt it necessary to criticise these outlets. Mr Lang claims that to site the outlet in the Events Square was "cheap and tacky - it looks like a fairground" especially with the world's media in Falmouth.
Did I spot two of our top UK television reporters queuing at the sandwich bar? Courtesy of the Royal Navy, Ellen MacArthur enjoyed a tasty bacon butty whisked across to her trimaran from HMS Severn when she awoke after five hours much-needed sleep.
Congratulations to Mike Rangecroft, the Events Square promoter, Tamsin Loveless, Jonathan Griffin and staff of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall and to the Port Pendennis marina management for all their sterling efforts in securing and organising Ellen's fantastic welcome in Falmouth.
We need people like them to boost our tourism industry and not Mr Lang whose comments to use his own words were "cheap and tacky."
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