Cornwall

Eat Drink and Be Merry in Cornwall

2011-03-08T02:52:00.000-08:00

When you want to experience the local life in Cornwall, it is best that you visit the pubs and stay at one of the Cornwall holiday cottages and have a taste of what it’s like living in this gem of a county. Pub culture is synonymous to England as tapas bars to Spain and outdoor cafes to France. Stepping into several of the pubs in the area gives you the opportunity to mingle with the locals and see what a regular person experiences in this county. There are numerous pubs where the locals hang out after work hours that are located nearby many holiday cottages in which you can frequent during the time that you are in the area. Here are some pubs that are popular with the locals and are conveniently reachable from any of the Cornwall holiday cottages and other neighbouring holiday cottages as well. There are traditional pubs and modern pubs in the area for you to consider.

The Fort Inn  

Address: 63 Fore Street, Newquay, Cornwall, TR7 1HA
Tel: 0871 223 8000 (ref 13448)

This pub is not only famous for its good food and a wide selection of ales and lagers but it also has a spectacular view of the harbour. This is one of Newquay’s popular pubs that are frequented by locals and that is a good sign for tourists who want to observe and experience the local Cornish culture. This pub is located by the water and there are many Cornwall holiday cottages and holiday cottages in the neighbouring towns that make this pub conveniently accessible. There is an indoor play area if you have your children with you and an outdoor play area overlooking the beach so you can enjoy your stay in this pub while the children are having fun and are preoccupied. This pub is a family friendly pub that is very convenient for tourists vacationing with their family. It is also conveniently located new many of the Cornwall holiday cottages so that you do not have to travel long distances for a great meal or a decent pint. If you enjoy the beach and generous servings of food then the Fort Inn is the place for you. You can frequent this pub because of its close proximity from many holiday cottages.

Miners Arms

Mithian, St. Agnes
Cornwall TR5 0QF

01872 552375

This is a fine example of a traditional English pub with years of tradition behind it. This is a very old structure which was built in 1577 and looks and feels like an old English pub. It cannot get more authentic than this pub. The pub has low ceilings and wobbly walls that have seen better days but this adds to the appeal to this veteran of the pub culture. This pub is accessible to public transport that means that it getting there from any of the Cornwall holiday cottages is fairly easy. Frequenting the place while you are staying at any of the holiday cottages is definitely doable but it is an acquired taste in which locals have learned to love and is frequently patronized.

Tree House Penelewey

2010-09-04T09:18:00.001-07:00

Tree House
Originally uploaded by AndyRob

A nice tree house in a garden at Penelewey, not far from the Punch Bowl and Ladle pub. Handy for the King Harry Ferry crossing in South Cornwall.

Swanpool Falmouth Cornwall

2010-09-01T04:25:00.001-07:00

Swanpool Falmouth Cornwall
Originally uploaded by AndyRob

This is the lake or pool that Swanpool near Falmouth is named after. There's road which separates the swanpool from the beach, and a big car park to one side. From the car park you can walk all around the swan pool but that does mean walking along the main road for one side and then on the far side, the footpath meanders away from the lake a bit and you only get the occasional glimpse, such as the one in the photograph here.

The Truro Agricultural Show

2010-04-26T04:11:00.000-07:00

Truro Agricultural Show

The Truro Agricultural Show is a traditional folk song which commemorates the occasion when the Royal Cornwall Show was merged with teh Bath and West show in 1861 and held in Truro.

There were occasional visitors to the old Truro Folk club (The new folk cottage) who used to sing this unaccompanied, but here's a version by Andy Roberts with a guitar (of sorts).

The Truro Agricultural Show Lyrics

Good people all who hear my voice, you now have reason to rejoice;
For off to Truro you may go, to see the Agricultural Show;
But don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show.

A motley crew you will see there, fat farmers and their wives so rare
Their bounc'n daughters neat & clean, wi' a porkpie hat &a crinoline
So don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.

From Newlyn east and Saint Columb too, there's Humpback'd Jim
and Carroty Joe; and a special train upon the rail,
to bring all the thieves from Bodmin Gaol.
So don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.

They've got a band from Plymouth down, the best that ever was in the town;
And all the gentry will be there -'tis most as pretty as Whitsun Fair!
But don't go kissing the girls you know at Truro Agericultural Show.

There's horses, ponies, cows and calves, for Truro don't do things by halves - there be Devon bulls, sheep, pigs, and geese;
You can see it all for a shilling a piece!
But don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show!

There's things up there that'll make you laugh,
there's a two-legg'd cow and a nine-legg'd calf;
A billiy-goat that comes from Wales, with 16 eyes & 17 tails.
So don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show!

Now all around I hear you say, "we'll see that show this very day..
So off we go, all in a row, to Truro Agericultural Show!"
And don't go kissing the girls you know, at Truro Agericultural Show

Porthcurno, with Logan's Rock in the distance

2010-02-13T09:28:00.001-08:00

Porthcurno, with Logan's Rock in the distance
Originally uploaded by C.H.Stocker

Porthcurno, with Logan's Rock in the distance.

Porthcurno was home to the first telegraph between North America and Europe - a small museum stands just above the beach

Cornish Wreckers

2010-01-09T05:30:00.000-08:00

In history, there have been wreckers at work wherever there are rough seas, rocks, shipping lanes and poor people. The Cornish wreckers are particularly well known though, and the legend of the old Wreckers Prayer lives on. The wreckers prayer song, however, was only written around 2003 by Andy Roberts based on a memory from the Isles of Scilly and an experience in the Basque country, Northern Spain.

Cornish Wreckers and the The Wreckers Prayer

Gweek Seal Sanctuary Prepares For Busy Seal Pup Rescue Season

2009-10-27T05:57:00.000-07:00

HELSTON, Cornwall:

Fish wait to be prepared for feeding time at the National Seal Sanctuary in Gweek near Helston. The Cornwall-based charity, which was founded in 1958 as a sanctuary for injured seal pups, is gearing up for the seal pup season when it is often called upon to rescue seal pups that have got into trouble anywhere around the coast. The centre employs a animal care team, who are on call 24hrs a day, to rescue seal pups, who, after being brought to the sanctuary receive expert veterinary care in a purpose built hospital before being transferred to outdoor pools where they gain weight and stamina before being released into the wild. The sanctuary aims to rehabilitate all rescued pups and since 1981 only two seals have been diagnosed as never being able to survive in the wild and they have now joined the full time residents at the sanctuary.

Portreath

2009-09-28T11:48:00.001-07:00

Portreath
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Portreath beach is typical of the north coast of Cornwall with rugged heads, crashing waves, surf, rocks and sand.

green jumper blue shed

2009-09-03T15:42:00.001-07:00

green jumper blue shed
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Looks a lot like Cornwall in some ways, but actually it's St Monans in Fife, Scotland.

West Cornwall Ariel View

2009-06-22T04:48:00.000-07:00

Theatre Breaks from Cornwall

2009-04-15T07:42:00.001-07:00

Theatre fans in Cornwall have the Minnack and the Hall for Cornwall in Truro but then what?

Theatre Breaks from Cornwall

Cornwall has almost everything you need but if you like to take in a West End musical for a change then you will need to exit the county for a short time. London Theatre breaks by train are pretty convenient really, you can never be too far away from a mainline station such as Penzance, Redruth, Truro or Liskeard and then once you've gone past Plymouth and Exeter it's super fast inter city 125 all the way to Paddington.

By booking a London Theatre break from Camborne, Launceston or Helston for example you can be up in London in time for an evening meal, one of the really big shows such as Les Miserables, Phantom of The Opera, Wicked, Oliver or Dirty Dancing and then spend a comfortable night ina posh London hotel. That's the whole point of booking a theatre break as one single package from Cornwall to the West End.

Sancreed angel

2009-02-28T05:32:00.001-08:00

Sancreed angel
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

The angel is in the churchyard at Sancreed, where there used to be lots going on. Last time we visited the art gallery garden place seemed to have been made private though.

surf

2009-02-05T08:48:00.001-08:00

surf
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Surf

But it's not Cornwall, it's Gower.

Penpoll Creek

2009-01-13T05:30:00.001-08:00

Penpoll Creek
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Apparently there was ice at the side of the creek last week, the first time since we moved there 30 years ago.

Truro Cathedral

2008-11-21T09:27:00.001-08:00

Truro Cathedral
Originally uploaded by Bob.Bee

It's a fake, of course, but makes an interesting landmark I suppose.

How to make Cider

2008-10-28T09:47:00.001-07:00

If you;re in Cornwall looking at all those apples and wondering if there's a way to learn how to make cider at home this video might be a start.

2008-10-19T11:40:00.001-07:00

"Let the lighthouse shine out bright and clear"

Wreckers prayer by Andy Roberts

Cape Cornwall with Seal

2008-09-20T15:33:00.001-07:00

Cape Cornwall with Seal
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

This is to make up for the really close view of a seal in the harbour at Pittenweem which i failed to shoot before he bobbed underwater and headed out to sea

Goonhilly satellite station

2008-07-05T07:26:00.001-07:00

Goonhilly Downs satellite station was once an important part of international communications for military and civilian purposes, and it's now a minor tourist attraction on the Lizard in Cornwall. I went there on a school trip in the 1960s not loang after it had been used to realy the first ever live transatlantic TV pictures. It was also used to bring lunar landing footage to UK TV screens.

pic by 3fold

North Cornwall

2008-06-29T08:28:00.001-07:00

North Cornwall_Z12195
Originally uploaded by Ennor

There's something very pleasing about the lines of the hedges and fields in Cornwall.

2008-06-08T16:23:00.001-07:00

South Devon coast
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

South Devon coast viewed from the train to Cornwall where they nurture creativity for the harvest

2008-05-11T04:06:00.001-07:00

Penpol Creek
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Well really that's Restronguet Point and part of Carrick Roads viewed from Point. The little creek looks lovely when the tide is in.

2008-04-25T06:49:00.001-07:00

Mousehole
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

The harbour at Mousehole on a pleasant summers day. There's always something to watch at Mousehole.

2008-04-09T05:14:00.001-07:00

Cape Cornwall
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Interesting coloured rocks at Cape Cornwall on a lovely day

2008-03-10T03:40:00.001-07:00

Storm
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Storm waves crashing against a harbour

2008-02-16T08:32:00.001-08:00

Portreath Harbour
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

2006-11-28T13:44:00.000-08:00

Gwennap Pit
Originally uploaded by Drewhound.

2006-09-23T04:54:00.000-07:00

Padstow_S00846
Originally uploaded by Ennor.

2006-09-19T01:25:00.000-07:00

Zennor
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Herring gull

2006-08-19T22:54:00.002-07:00

Herring gull
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Coombe footpath

2006-08-19T22:54:00.001-07:00

Coombe footpath
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Mousehole

2006-08-19T22:54:00.000-07:00

Mousehole
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Penpol

2006-08-19T22:53:00.000-07:00

Penpol
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Coverack

2006-08-19T22:52:00.001-07:00

Coverack
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Roche Rock

2006-08-19T22:52:00.000-07:00

Roche Rock
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

St Agnes carnival

2006-08-19T22:50:00.001-07:00

St Agnes carnival
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Cape Cornwall

2006-08-19T22:50:00.000-07:00

Cape Cornwall
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Zennor

2006-08-19T22:49:00.000-07:00

Zennor
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Devoran Creek

2006-02-24T14:17:00.000-08:00

Devoran Creek
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Penpoll Creek

2006-02-23T15:07:00.000-08:00

Penpoll Creek
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Near Point, Devoran.

Photo taken from Wingletang by Andy Roberts

2006-02-23T07:55:00.000-08:00

Brunel's railway bridge across the Tamar
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.