DRIFT Journal

Words by Jamie Crocker An invitation to foray into the flavours of Topsham’s rich seafood history. I’ve tried. I really have. It’s been a lifetime spent trying to cure myself of an aversion that has left me feeling that I’m missing out on something special. In Royan, a Dali-esque platter of shellfish winked at me from the open window of a beachside restaurant like an edible sculpture. I admired it enormously, right up to the point where someone suggested we enter the establishment and try...

Words by Jamie Crocker Science writer Sophie Pavelle reveals nature’s tangled symbioses. It begins, weirdly enough, with a worm no longer than a grain of rice. Few people would pick such a creature as the starting point for a conversation about climate change, biodiversity or the future of the natural world. Yet this tiny marine animal, capable of stealing the machinery of photosynthesis from the algae it consumes, embodies exactly the kind of story that fascinates Sophie Pavelle. She is...

Words by Jamie Crocker A septet of Cornish retreats proving that a holiday by the sea can still feel like discovery. Cornwall has always had a complicated relationship with its own beauty. The county doesn’t flinch at exalting in its cliffs and coves whilst postcards have flattened its beaches and azure Mediterranean-like waters into cliché, yet anyone who has stood at the top of a coastal path at Sennen or Mawgan Porth at first light or as the sun descends into the ocean knows that the place...