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April 30, 2012 | Tags:
festival, food, fun, St Ives,
Aspects Holidays is proud to be sponsoring the third St Ives Food and Drink Festival. The festival has grown from a weekend event to a week-long line-up, crammed with cookery demonstrations, coastal food foraging, wine and cheese tastings and of … Continue reading →
April 24, 2012 | Tags:
2012 Olympics, Falmouth, what's on,
This year, Falmouth will host the annual UK Open Finn National Championships and the Finn Gold Cup. From the 3rd – 18th May, Events Square will be brimming with a festival atmosphere as over 120 elite sailors descend upon the … Continue reading →
April 16, 2012 | Tags:
2012 Olympics, Cornwall, torch relay,
On Friday, May 18th the Olympic Torch will leave Greece and make its way to Land’s End, signalling the start of the Olympic celebrations. The day after it will leave its iconic starting point and spend the day travelling through … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
September 30, 2011 | Tags:
Cornwall, Falmouth, festival, outdoor, walking,
It’s often said that we don’t make enough effort to explore the landscape around us, and as is often the case, we get home from work, complete the daily duties and sink into the sofa for the evening. That’s … Continue reading →
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 →
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 →