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A day out in… Fowey

A day out in… Fowey

A charming town that’s the perfect size for a day’s wander, Fowey – as in ‘joy’ – has everything from cute clothes shops to...

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Ahoy Sailor: Learning to Sail with Mylor Cruising

Ahoy Sailor: Learning to Sail with Mylor Cruising

I can dance a sailor’s jig after a couple of pints of Spingo. I can hoist sails and pull ropes (err herm, I mean ‘sheets’, to use...

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Falmouth Motor Boat Charters

Falmouth Motor Boat Charters

To anyone who sails or has that glorious yachty totty feel about them, the Windana will immediately float their boat. To one Melodie...

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A Right Royal Regatta

A Right Royal Regatta

Where can you catch street carnivals, yachtie totty and the Red Arrows? The Fowey Royal Regatta. No ordinary sailing regatta, this...

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High brow on the south coast: Daphne du Maurier festival May 9 – 20 2012

High brow on the south coast: Daphne du Maurier festival May 9 – 20 2012

Take one sex toy, a genteel Cornish fishing town, mix with a semi-reclusive authoress who once had the Queen to tea, add a sprinkle of...

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Cornwall Food & Drink’s Cornish Challenge

Cornwall Food & Drink’s Cornish Challenge

By hook or by crook I have managed to bag an invite to the final of the Cornish Challenge on Monday 6th February; and I am seriously...

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An Ode To Autumn: the five best pub walks

An Ode To Autumn: the five best pub walks

Channel your inner Bronte and embrace the ravaging elements of sea, moor and cliffs with a bracing autumnal walk combined with a pub pit...

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Sam’s Fowey

Sam’s Fowey

Tall, dark and … silver? My hot date for reviewing Sam’s in Fowey was a generation apart from me, and the epitome of a silver fox....

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Daring Du Maurier ‘Doll’ discovered at Bookends, Fowey

Daring Du Maurier ‘Doll’ discovered at Bookends, Fowey

Staying at the bookshop Shakespeare & Co. in Paris in my twenties was a merging of all that was most important to me at the time:...

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A right royal gathering – Fowey Royal Regatta

A right royal gathering – Fowey Royal Regatta

Hot on the heels of Falmouth Week, Fowey Royal Regatta runs from 14 – 20 August when the estuary fills with sails and the town with...

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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again: Daphne Du Maurier Festival

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again: Daphne Du Maurier Festival

Never one to miss an opportunity to indulge in a little networking, or research if you are so discerning, the annual Daphne du Maurier...

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A Sex Toy, Pink Floyd and the Wicker Man

A Sex Toy, Pink Floyd and the Wicker Man

Perhaps unexpected for the genteel south coast of Cornwall but over the last two days, I have learnt more about 1920s sex toys and...

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