Bude: The Cornwall That Forgot to Become a Cliché

You know that thing where everyone tells you a place is 'unspoilt' and then you arrive to find a Starbucks and a car park that costs more than your lunch?

That's not Bude.

Tucked into Cornwall's northern coast where it almost becomes Devon, Bude is what happens when a seaside town simply refuses to play the game. No pastel-painted Instagram bait. No artisan everything. Just proper beaches, proper waves, and a canal that Victorian engineers somehow thought was a good idea—and, against all odds, were right.

This is Cornwall without the performance.