Poldark Tours and Holidays – live the magic of Poldark We launch our new Poldark tours next week on Friday 7 August going from Falmouth and taking in most of the notable filming locations as well as heritage sites, mines, literary sites that inspired Winston Graham’s novels and lots of opportunities to shop for unique […]
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Unusually for the annual carnival this year we had an evening completely unblighted by rain! Not so the rest of the weekend, but hey as Winston Graham said in book six “The Black Moon”; “The rain, so much a part of the Cornish spring (and summer, and autumn, and winter) had fallen incessantly all day […]
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Last night on Twitter’s @CornwallHour (7.30-8.30 every Wednesday) we tweeted an amazing aerial view of the iconic Headland hotel overlooking Newquay’s equally iconic Fistral Beach. That tweet is still being shared and favourited and with good reason! We decided today we should experience The Headland from a family perspective so we told the children we […]
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It seemed fitting today as the launch day of the website to visit some of our lovely businesses and to have a tour around the immediate environs of the original Poldark’s Cornwall: Perranporth. One of my favourite coves is Trevellas Porth, where back in the 70s they filmed the opening credit sequence of the original […]
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Wandering down the hill into Charlestown harbour you’d be forgiven for feeling a little confused. A curious mixture of old and new the town has suddenly become a top tourist attraction thanks to Poldark, and yet it has held a starring role in so many productions over the years because of its unique positioning and […]
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A friend of mine has recently joined the 5.00 am club! Now if this sounds like torture to you, you’re not alone! Apparently, if you get up at 5.00 am and do 20 minutes of brisk exercise, followed by 20 minutes of planning and then 20 minutes of learning, after 66 days ( quite specific […]
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It’s not hard to see why millions of fans worldwide have fallen in love with the Poldark phenomenon. I mean, what not to like? Staggeringly good looking protagonists, glorious locations, bodice ripping story lines and apparently endless sunshine with an array of wild flowers in every field enough to make a worker bee pack up […]
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