Opportunity knocks!
When you think of “island” and then think of “surf” what are the first images that pop into your mind? Stiff, cold winds? A messy and angry ocean? Pale skin? Bangers? Mash? Me too! Jolly Old England. Enchanted Albion. Isle of Wave Dancing and have you ever thought about packing it all and just moving there? Just leaving it all behind?
Well, now is your chance and let us turn to the realtor’s gotta-see-to-believe description of a once-in-a-lifetime housing opportunity.
A luxury seaside home that sits above one of Britain’s finest surfing beaches has gone on the market for £1.15m.
The four-bed property, called Compass North, is separated from Fistral Beach in Cornwall by the protected green landscape of Newquay Golf Course.
The 1930s detached house that is on the market with estate agents Rohrs & Rowe, has uninterrupted views of the sandy beach and clear blue waters.
It has 3,675 sq ft of accommodation with sitting room, sun room, kitchen/dining room, drawing room, four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a gym or fifth bedroom.
There is also a downstairs shower room for de-sanding post beach activities.
Outside it has a double garage, landscaped gardens and a sun terrace.
Martin Rohrs, from Rohrs & Rowe, said: “The house is right next to Fistral Beach.”
Of course you know Fistral Beach, birthplace of high-performance English surfing. And can you even believe that you can own a slice for a paltry 1.1 million pounds? Right today that is only 1.5 million U.S. dollars and if you’re smart and play the Brexit I bet you can scoop for less than a million, or avocado toast for two in Bondi, Australia*.
It’d be like owning the Pipeline House for less than a million.
Think about that.
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No thank you! Please stay in America…. https://vimeo.com/156389497
Beats E. coast/mid atlantic, been flat for 3 weeks, very cold, I could go for some quiet small town English life,
Sorry.
“Chas! No more links to that fuckin Mirror bullshit dammit!”
Howbowda?
Fucking hell Chas, if you post more trap-links to the Mirror or similar I’ll quit this rag for good! Horrible, nasty, evil publication (The Mirror). Warn us!
Could’ve been worse. Here in blighty we also have the Daily Mail and it is to the Mirror as a vaguely worrying mole is to aggressive anus cancer.
Oh I know all about them. (Lived in UK for 30 years)
The people who run them should be publicly executed for crimes against humanity. But perhaps I’m being too kind.
The kids are spending all their money on avocado toast as they know they will never own a home in Australia. Thanks again China.
I’d move there just to release my own line of souvenir shirts with the simple slogan, ‘I was FISTed @ FISTral beach’.
….and all I Grit was this loosey T-shirt’.
What ! Use Fisticuffs ? I do anything for one shirt anything……Turts you artful dodger you .
How about bumper stickers with, ‘Greetings from Fistral beach, life’s pretty twisted when you’ve just been Fisted!’
‘Get Fisted In Fistral!’
Get Fisted in Cornwall’s corn-hole
Oh, I can just see this now.
Cue the Goons with a remake of Dire Straits “Fisting by the Pool”
Of course they’ll fuck it up somehow coz they’re useless ….
“Come for the Mistral, stay for the Fistral!”
You forgot the awesome water temps that ranges from cool to uncovered appendage falling off cold.
I thought Fistral was a sexual innuendo involving a French Windsurfer.
Fistral avec Mistral ?
It was a mistrial. It never shoulda went to court.
So Miss Trial Bay won’t be breaking South West Rocks ?
The Trials and Fistralations
We are counting on you to find a Newquay to open the doors of liberty and end this fistrating process ?
They seemingly have the best rugby team in the world all of a sudden – the cunts!
Never Forgive Never Forget and turn defeat into victory when it really counts this year at the World Cup in Japan .
Newquay’s aging surfing aristocracy has some absolute characters so would not recommend this purchase to those with feeble minds or weak livers .
But there’s surf ranch adjacent homes in Lemoore for $150k.
Hey!!! no marketing in the comment section of bg!! you gotta pay to do that…
I reckon you probably park a camper van in the scrub just outside of Yepoon for free.
Two kids got caught trying to climb the fence recently and were ordered by security to go back inside and wait for a wave …..?