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’ve been coming to Polzeath since I was 14 — I’m 18 now, and I’ve just finished A-levels in London. The beach here has always been a meeting place for teenagers. On summer evenings, when I was younger, we would sit in small groups, sometimes make a fire, drink beers and maybe smoke some weed.
However, over the past two years it has become something else — it’s now like a date on the social calendar, especially among the private schoolchildren. I’d say there isn’t a single private school kid in the country who doesn’t know about Polzeath.
I went to the beach last Tuesday and I was pretty shocked by how many people were there — probably at least 400. You could hear dealers
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