Cornwall was once best known for its dairy produce; the reliably wet climate and sometimes poor soil was best for growing grass to feed cattle. But while cream teas and a block of Cornish Yarg are still some of the…
In less than an hour you can go from the bustling sophistication of Padstow to the heart of Bodmin Moor, one of Cornwall’s most ancient and varied landscapes. Much of its 80 square miles are pure wilderness and remain open…
Carn Brea Castle is easily one of Cornwall’s most recognisable landmarks and one of its most unusual buildings. Standing on the heights of Carn Brea Hill it is visibly from miles around. Over the centuries the castle has had many…
While we’d love to guarantee fine weather for all our guests, even infrequent visitors to Cornwall know that this is wishful thinking. In reality it pays to have a few ideas up your sleeves for those days when rain clouds…
Guides to Cornwall generally fall into one of two categories. They’re either rapturous reviews of its dramatic landscape and characterful towns. Or rants about traffic jams and ever increasing hordes of visitors. Fortunately there is a third way – one…
One of the culinary highlights of Cornwall’s quirky list of speciality foods is saffron cake. It’s less well known than the Cornish pasty or stargazy pie, but its history is equally rich and its flavour just as exciting. Saffron cake’s…
Summer in Cornwall is all about making the most of our wonderful outdoor spaces! And luckily we have been blessed with a tradition of wonderfully creative theatre groups just waiting to take advantage of our many open-air theatres, or creating…
We gave you a flavour in this post of the best places to enjoy North Cornwall’s outstanding fish and seafood. But we’re aware that there’s more to eating out than splashing out on the fine dining delights of Rick Stein,…
The view of the white tower of Godrevy lighthouse on its little rocky island on the eastern edge of St Ives Bay has to be one of the most beautiful and iconic in Cornwall. It marks where the notorious Stones…
Loved and loathed in equal measure, the satirist and author of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift once said of the saltwater mollusc: “He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” But if you were to put money on it,…