Montol Festival | 21 December 2014
Masked revellers marauding through the streets, fiery braziers, torch-lit mayhem, music and merriment and strange beasts… celebrating the winter solstice and the return of the light on the shortest day of the year, this is Montol. From its anarchic debut
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Surfing at Gwithian and Godrevy
Stay at a holiday cottage in Hayle or Gwithian, and you won’t be far from the popular surfing beaches of Gwithian and Godrevy. Situated at the eastern end of St Ives Bay, they make up part of the 3 miles
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Enter our festive photo competition…
PLEASE NOTE: THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. For those of you spending Christmas or New Year in Cornwall this year, you could win £100 off your 2015 Christmas or New Year break by simply taking a festive photo and uploading
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Restaurants with the best views in West Cornwall
We are spoilt for choice here in West Cornwall when it comes to dining out. In many regions, that would be good enough, but we can offer something more. A view to die for… Carn Brea Castle, Carnkie, Redruth Let’s
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Christmas lights and shopping in Cornwall
Mousehole lights Perhaps the most famous of all the Christmas lights displays is in Mousehole Harbour. The flick of the switch will illuminate old favourites such as the Mousehole Cat, the Loch Ness Monster and many more. This year the
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Truro City of Lights
It’s cold. It’s dark. Winter cometh. Must be time to get the withy lanterns out then, take to the streets, make some noise and celebrate community. Well that’s what Cornwall’s capital Truro does for their annual City of Lights festival,
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Aspects achieves Investors In People Silver award
We’re proud to announce that, following an assessment from Investors in People, Aspects Holidays have been awarded the prestigious Silver award! What’s it all about? IIP exists to help businesses realise the potential of their employees, improve standards
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Christmas week in Cornwall
If you’re anything like us, planning a family Christmas has to start weeks in advance. There’s just so much to consider. The diary comes out and the countdown begins, planning out how we’d like Christmas to be this year. So,
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Cornwall Film Festival
In its thirteenth year, the Cornwall Film Festival is an exciting month-long celebration of local and international film-making. An opportunity to see some outstanding Cornish, British and international feature films on the big screen, many in preview and all with
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A winning family: meet the Garantinis
For those of you who don’t remember, in April this year we ran a contest to win a week’s holiday at one of our luxury cottages in St Ives, Stuart Cottage. On Friday I took the opportunity to meet up
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Win £100 off your next holiday
PLEASE NOTE: THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED. To be entered for a chance to win £100 off your next holiday with us, upload your photos of your dog enjoying the seaside by clicking on the button below. Simple! Terms
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Ferienhaus Cornwall: our new German website
Our brand new website ‘Ferienhaus Cornwall‘ is now live! Over the past few weeks (and months!) we’ve been hard at work putting together our new German-language website, ‘Ferienhaus Cornwall’. The site carries a German extension (.de) to help reach our
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