Marc Campos on why he left his golfing career

Marc Campos on leaving his golfing career behind.

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00:00 many many reasons, injury was one of them but that said I think I came back to doing

00:06 what I should have actually done in the first place. My gift was actually cooking, I thought

00:10 it was gold. They are two different worlds. When I was younger and travelling was easy,

00:17 the question would have been a lot easier to answer, yes obviously, but towards the

00:24 end every flight was delayed, I was in an airport every week of the year, so every flight

00:30 there was a problem with, you were very lucky if your golf clubs arrived and at the end

00:34 of the day I got to a stage where every hotel room looked the same. What I didn't have

00:38 is what I have now. I had family, I didn't have family, I have family here, I kind of

00:45 see the same people every day, I have a routine and yet there is a lot of different things

00:51 going on. I do not know what the fishermen are bringing me, so it's exciting because

00:56 I have to delve into that. But obviously travelling the world has a lot going for it. Here life

01:03 is constant and that's what I didn't have in my life, so yes and no.

01:11 How did you manage through the constant living crisis?

01:19 We've been very lucky, the timing of the various awards we've won, the gold award from Visit

01:24 England, the silver award of course, that's really brought us everything that's changed

01:29 the whole demographic of the restaurant, from the Taste of Kent award, but basically it's

01:35 the fact that all of our prices, some of our prices have actually been coming down while

01:39 they're going up because we only use local produce and local fish is an abundance for

01:43 example. Hake, mackerel, bass are a lot cheaper than they were this time last year and that's

01:48 reflected on our menu. Obviously other things have gone up so they go up, but when something

01:52 comes down, it comes down in price and I think it's the advantage of only doing local. Lots

01:57 of restaurants use exotic fish and yes, cod and salmon are exotic to Thane, so their prices

02:04 are obviously going up. I think the transportation costs of what's really made the damage in

02:10 the cost of living crisis and we have zero transportation costs because it literally

02:14 does come from here.

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