About
Discover an inspiring land steeped in history, myth, and adventure. Featured on many TV dramas and documentaries, Cornwall is a natural film set. Explore hidden gems and popular beauty spots in the company of a local expert guide.
Your first visit to Cornwall is unlikely to be your last!
Poldark & Cornwall Expert Tour Guide
Introducing Karen Colam
Karen Colam has been in the tourism and leisure business for many years. A former award-winning hotelier and restaurateur, she has been at the spearhead of personal bespoke touring for discerning guests since 2015. An expert on the stories and tv adaptations of Poldark, Karen has broadcast reviews of the most recent shows and welcomed hundreds of fans throughout the world.
Her previous business interests have ranged from boat-building to interior design and her early career was in West End theatre wardrobes where she graduated from smashing irons in darkened rooms in the middle of blackouts hooked up a generator, to designing and making costumes for many of the great actors of the age. She augmented this lifestyle with singing in night clubs in London before expanding this nocturnal existence into motherhood and night time feeds.
She moved to Cornwall in 1988 with her elder daughter and subsequently met and married her first husband and added another daughter to the team before temporarily moving over the border into Devon. Further moves and another ill-fated marriage took her further and further west until she wound up on the North Cornwall coast at Perranporth. Now a well-known, respected and loved member of the community, Karen now also has two granddaughters to add to the matriarchy ( or “coven” as she laughingly calls it!) and two little girl staffies to complete the pack.
Karen’s great passion, beyond her immediate family is to show people the best time and is the most engaging and entertaining raconteur to tour with. Her hundreds of guests have translated into hundreds of friends over the years.
She invites you to get in touch and have a chat before making any bookings so she can help advise how to get the best from your visit to Cornwall.
