Back to latest news

Porthleven Food Festival

April 7, 2012 | Tags: festivals, food, Porthleven,

The pretty quaint town of Porthleven sits on the south west coast of Cornwall and is centred around its working fishing harbour. The town is home to some fantastic restaurants and bistros serving delicious, local produce and is a great … Continue reading

Art in the City

March 26, 2012 | Tags: Art, Cornwall, Truro,

It seems St Ives isn’t the only artistic hub of Cornwall – for the fourth year running, Cornwall’s capital city Truro will be holding ‘Art in the City’. There will be workshops by well-known local artists, painting demonstrations, drop-in creative … Continue reading

Shining on Cornwall’s Capital

November 9, 2011 | Tags: festival, Truro, winter,

A week from now, the Truro City of Lights will transform Cornwall’s capital city. Baffled about the potential wow-factor of lighted tissue lanterns? Discard all of your predisposed ideas  - the City of Lights is a spectacular procession of grand creations that … Continue reading

‘Hot Chef Challenge’

October 18, 2011 | Tags: Falmouth, festival, food,

This, week we’ve roped Ross into writing about his experience in the ‘Hot Chef Challenge’ at the Falmouth Oyster Festival. Despite manic cheering and shouting by Aspects staff, Ross narrowly lost out on the competition crown, but was pleased to … Continue reading

Falmouth Oyster Festival

October 13, 2011 | Tags: Cornwall, Falmouth, festival, food,

Today we attended the launch of the Falmouth Oyster Food Festival. Opening this year’s festival was 2011 MasterChef Champion Tim Anderson, who effortlessly created a rather unattractive Japanese dish, however from looking around at the satisfied nods and murmurs from lucky samplers, … Continue reading

Trevaskis Farm Big Weekend

July 11, 2011 | Tags: Cornwall, festival, food, local,

Aspects Holidays were proud to be the main event sponsor at this years ‘Big Weekend’ at Trevaskis Farm.   There was a great festival atmosphere and an abundance of local producers including Nicky Grant’s handmade chocolates, Rodda’s Cornish dairy products, … Continue reading

Royal Cornwall Show 2011

June 12, 2011 | Tags: agricultural, Cornwall,

Most of us have heard of the Royal Cornwall Show, witnessed (and joined) the hype on twitter and Facebook and anticipated the day by rooting out an old, oversized Mac and hiking boots. As expected, the second day of the show was … Continue reading