G7 Summit in West Cornwall

[mtbc]

West Cornwall is full of narrow, winding roads. Sure, they've dualled the A30 and added bypasses but, beyond the A roads, many villages in that area are a pain to drive around even in a moderately sized car. I doubt it's much improved since I last visited because widening and straightening the streets would mean demolishing many buildings.

When I consider how one plans for a conference with very important people with many large, fancy cars and entourages, I can't help but wonder, St Ives? Really? Were, say, Cardiff and Newcastle unavailable? Maybe it's all rather more practical than I expect but if my event planning people had proposed such then I'd have raised an eyebrow.

Comments

[aldabra]

It's a feature. It makes it easier to keep protestors away. They've probably laid on helicopters from airports.

[mtbc]

Aha, I'd taken that as a double-edged sword, correspondingly harder to respond to incidents but, good point, helicopters may make all the difference.