Cornwall, one of the UK’s top holiday destinations, welcomed a record 5 million visitors in 2022. This number is set to fall by 10-15% in 2023 due to the cost of living crisis and rising fuel costs. This year is a mixed picture, with poor weather an additional factor. However, summer is peak season and… Read More »
Platform 1 at Paddington Station is not the place I find myself at 11pm on a Monday night, but I am here for good reason. I am about to board the Great Western Railway’s Night Riviera Sleeper train from London to Penzance in Cornwall, at the very tip of England’s south-west peninsula. I was visiting… Read More »
This year, a forest swimming garden has been crowned the winner of the RHS Chelsea Best in Show award, proving you don’t need to travel to the other side of the world to experience the practice. So what is forest bathing? In Japan it is known as: shinrin nouForest bathing encourages taking time to be… Read More »
An outdoor show has an added excitement. The feeling that theater should always be this way; friendly, less formal, social; audience and artists together. And it’s all completely at the mercy of the weather. Nature plays an important role in this industry and will often determine programming and whether a show will go on. The… Read More »
Generally speaking, there isn’t much going on when it comes to holidaying in Cornwall. Pick a nice spot near a nice beach, head down the A30 until you reach it, then the rest will take care of itself until it’s time to head home. It may be a bit oversimplified, but it’s a tried and… Read More »
There is a sense of adventure in going on a boat. Boats can reach hidden bays and winding swamps that other means of transportation cannot reach. Before motor transport, sailing boats and later steamships provided the fastest way to travel between coastal communities in the UK (as well as transport goods across the country). As… Read More »
Britain’s Molly Caudery wins gold at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow – Reuters/Hannah McKay Molly Caudery is Britain’s first world or Olympic pole vault champion. She now has her sights set on becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic field event title in 40 years and comes from a county with only… Read More »
Cate Blanchett has been accused of “total negligence” during the construction of her ecological home in Cornwall, which “ruined holidays” and cost her neighbor £60,000. The Lord of the Rings star, 54, and her playwright husband Andrew Upton, 57, bought the £1.6million country house in Mawgan Porth four years ago and have since demolished the… Read More »
Scarlet’s most attractive feature must be its jacuzzis swinging on the edge of the windy beach There may be no better place for a wellness break in Britain than the Cornish peninsula, where sun, sea and stunning scenery combine to instantly revitalize and calm your soul. Perhaps that’s why spa hotels in this part of… Read More »