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The 3 Cornish Gems

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After my laptop breaking and dropping my phone down the toilet and losing a lot of my latest posts, including this one, i'm feeling a little under the emotional weather. None the less! I still remember my wonderful time in Cornwall with 2 of my greatest friends and here are the 2 best hidden and one not so hidden) / places I picked. Gunwalloe In the middle of no where was this super secluded beach, with an added wedding. It's a pretty ace place to get married. We didn't bathe on the pebble one but located next to it was an equally lovely sandy one with hills stretched for miles behind it, perfect for a small "hike". Something for everyone's needs. Porthleven harbour I flipping loved this harbour, even more than i loved the rose wine and that is saying something. This simple, cute harbour makes you feel like you are in France. Its swim friendly, which is awesome and made me promptly sad i didn't have my swimming costume. It has a variety of re

Fraudulent housing scams in London. Please read and share.

Not only am I really angry writing this, but I am also heartbroken. No little than one hour ago, myself and James were ready to hand over to a "landlord", over a grand in borrowed money. It was a flat, too good to be true, 650 bills included per month in zone 2. I know someone who lives in one like this and so does James, so even though rare, not too far fetched. James emailed and sorted things out for a viewing until the "woman" wanted us to use money gram to secure the money as a failsafe for her travelling to London to show us the apartment that is hers but she doesn't live in, as she works in Manchester. We thought fair enough, that's a long way to travel for a room viewing and money on her part. She made a convincing argument and it all made sense. James had spent the entire day collecting the money up with me and sorting things as to not mess "her" about as she had given an elaborate story about previous tenants messing her around and he