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…

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…

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…

While it’s wonderful that Cornwall provides so many people with a place to escape over the summer, there is only so much love a county can take. If 2020 was anything to go by, our most popular beaches, towns and…

Whether you’re a full time influencer, an obsessive personal-documenter or just a casual sharer, a holiday in Cornwall is a chance to upload some iconic imagery to your Instagram feed. But if you can't face the inevitable queues in the…

In a previous blog A beginners guide to Cornish Coasteering we introduced you to the thrilling world of coasteering, an activity that allows you to see another side of the Cornish coast. A world of secret caves, hidden lagoons and, for…