Sunday 26th of June saw the end of the Golowan Festival. The festival began in the early 1800s and was one of the last midsummer festivals practiced in Cornwall. In the 1890s, the Penzance government banned the festival because of the rising insurance premiums needed from the town’s business community. This years finale was certainly spectacular with a world record attempt organised on the Penzance promenade.
The challenge was to get the most amount of people dressed as pirates in one place at the same time. The previous record (2010) was held by Hastings in East Sussex were a whooping 6,166 pirates attended.
Penzance had all sorts turn out for the event, from full blown Johnny Depp (Captain Jack Sparrow) lookalikes, kids wearing stripy t-shirts to dogs (although the dogs weren’t counted).
All of the attendees of the event were asked to contribute a small donation that was given to charity.
The sun was beating down and it almost felt like you were really in the Caribbean, a total of 8,734 people in fancy dress assembled on Penzance promenade meaning the Cornish smashed the Hastings record. Organisers of the event have said they’ve gathered evidence of the number of people who took part in the record attempt to send to the Guinness Book of Records organisation in the hope of getting official recognition.
Well done Cornwall and thank you to everyone that attended.
Photo from BBC Spotlight
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Cornwall has had a fair amount of sketchy weather the past four months and once again it provides the south west with some more strange weather. In this instance Cornwall is experiencing a heat wave; and it could’ve have come at a better time, right smack bang over the Easter Holiday weekend.
Now if people enjoying the weekend had planned in advance (unlike myself) then taking Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off next week as holiday from work means you’d get a total of 11 days off of work, with only having to use 3 days of your allocated holiday, d’oh!
Anyway, back to Cornwall. If you are lucky enough to live here, or are planning a holiday down here over the next few days / week then you can expect to have some quite spectacular weather:
Good Friday:- Maximum: 26C (79F), Minimum: 10C (50F)
Saturday:- Maximum: 24C (75F), Minimum: 10C (50F)
Easter Sunday:- Maximum: 24C (75F), Minimum: 8C (46F)
Bank Holiday Monday:- Maximum: 22C (72F), Minimum: 8C (46F)
Research shows the last time Easter Saturday and Sunday was that hot was way back in 1984. So the question is where will you be visiting whilst we have this beautiful weather? I know I will be getting up early and making the most of the time off. First on my list of places to go is to head down to Perrenporth beach on the north coast for an early morning surf. Then head out on my bike armed with my cameras to get some photos of the beautiful scenery Cornwall has to offer.
In the evening I think heading down to Swanpool beach (in Falmouth) to enjoy some good sea food at the Indaba Fish restaurant on top of the hill whilst watching the sun go down. That certainly sounds like the perfect day to over the long weekend.
Now I’ve given you the heads up on what I’m planning on doing for part of my weekend I’ll give a few suggestions on places and attractions that are certainly worth visiting while it’s sunny:
Any beach; my favourites include: Perrenporth, Gyllynvase , Gwithian, Holywell Bay and Lusty Glaze.
The Eden Project.
Flambards (if you’ve got kids).
The Lost Gardens of Heligan.
St Ives.
The Isle of Scilly (well more the boat trip).
I’ll leave it there for today, all I can say is I hope you enjoy the weather as much as I hope. I certainly love the fact that I live in Cornwall and I have all these things right on my doorstep.
Karl
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the Cornish Cottage Holidays offices. We pride ourselves on doing whatever we can to make the stay of our guests pleasurable and memorable. After sitting round the table and throwing ideas around to what we could do for out customers the idea of the selling tickets to the world famous Eden Project.
So it was off to the Eden Project to discuss how we could do this.
After discussion it was agreed that we would sell them as an optional extra whilst booking a holiday, meaning the customers would get tickets in the post before arriving in Cornwall. So what more could the team do for you? Well how about a better price for your tickets than you can get it any where else?
As a celebration for this Cornish Cottage Holidays are about to start a new competition to give one of our lucky Facebook fans a free holiday to Cornwall and that’s not all! You’ll get free entry to the Eden Project and a cream tea in a swanky hotel (T&Cs apply).
What a great prize, and it’s easy for anyone to enter. To be in with a chance of winning this awesome prize all you have to do is “Like” Cornish Cottage Holidays on Facebook. Easy!
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