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Hailed as this year’s hippest festival, Port Eliot is just around the corner and I’m heading to the stately home to see just how a weekend of books, comedy, music and eccentricity fits into Cornwall’s cultural landscape.<\/p>\nHailed as this year’s hippest festival, Port Eliot is just around the corner and I’m heading to the stately home to see just how a weekend of books, comedy, music and eccentricity fits into Cornwall’s cultural landscape.<\/p>\n
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And on top of that I’m hoping to pick Gavin Pretor-Pinney’s brain about cloud formations over the ocean, chat to Jamie Brisick about marrying writing and surfing and hear extracts of Dan Crockett’s creative fiction.<\/p>\n Who said surfing and culture don’t mix? I’ll let you know how I get on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hailed as this year’s hippest festival, Port Eliot is just around the corner and I’m heading to the stately home to see just how a weekend of books, comedy, music and eccentricity fits into Cornwall’s cultural landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,117,9,7,8],"tags":[2023,307,93,308],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolios","category-clare-howdle","category-features","category-music-and-film","category-on-the-road","tag-cornwall","tag-festival","tag-music","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t![\"airstream-caravans\"](\"http:\/\/driftsurfingmagazine.driftdigital.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/airstream-caravans.jpg\")
After three weeks of solid rain the charts for this weekend are looking good, though it’s not waves I’m hoping for. It’s sunshine and plenty of it.\u00a0 Because I don’t want to be wading through mud as I listen to Dominic West<\/a> talk about life as Jimmy McNulty on The Wire<\/em><\/a>, sway nostalgically to Evan Dando<\/a> <\/em>strumming, bounce around to rockabilly records and laugh as the best spoken word poets and comedians including Luke Wright<\/a>, Joe Dunthorne<\/a> and Simon Munnery<\/a> make magic with words at this year’s Port Eliot Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n