Destinations

Surf’s Up: Bodyboarding in Newquay | Anthony Sattin | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Newquay

From the balcony of our room, we look out at the deep blue Atlantic. The storms we drove through in Devon have not followed us down, the sun is out and a breeze is blowing off the sea, kicking up some fine old waves

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Real Surfers, Real Surfing | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Newquay

If your idea of surfing involves sitting in front of a cathode ray tube, you could do your body and soul a few favours by flicking the ‘off’ button, getting up off the sofa and heading to the coast to try the real thing instead

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The Midweek Breaks | Alf Alderson | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Widemouth

Take a demountable to Cornwall for a midweek break in search of a midweek break (as in surf)

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Cornish Secrets | Rebecca Ford | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Mousehole

Then I hear it - a gentle grinding sound that comes from deep inside the metal, like a whispered message from an ancient land. Colin smiles. "That," he says "is the cry of tin"

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Eden is a Must | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

The Eden Project in Cornwall is the best thing to have happened in a dreadful year of Domes and disease. In a remarkably short space of time, a giant china clay quarry has been transformed into a spectacular space age garden. With exactly half the funding coming from the Millennium Commission, it has cost less than 10% of the Dome and is at least a hundred times more interesting. It also has a serious message for all those concerned about the future of our countryside.

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Wide Right! Short Left! | Nancy Lyon | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

The butterflies I'd felt, looking down at these diabolical circles from the window of the Boeing 747 the morning before, were nothing compared to the giant Luna moths flapping around my abdomen now. Finally, after going around the roundabout 12 times - she counted them - I zinged off onto the exit lane, and pulled over in a sweat. Suzanna silently took the wheel...

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Plants for the Future | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

Robin Hanbury-Tenison, who was the last Director of the BFSS and the first Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, shows how the Eden Project in Cornwall demonstrates the way ahead for the countryside, both locally and globally. He also urges everyone to visit, preferably staying in one of his and his wife, Louella’s, luxurious houses nearby!

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Spring in Cornwall | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

There is, to my mind at least, nothing so tantalising, so thrilling, so replete with pagan pleasures as the six-month rite which is Cornwall's passage to summer.

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The Best of Cornwall | Philip Marsden | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

The duchy's pleasures have always been earned rather than dished out.

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Walking The Cornish Coast Path | Daniel Scott | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall

Wallop! It’s not quite the introduction to Cornwall that I’d been hoping for. There I am, minding my own business outside the regional Tate gallery in St Ives, when I am assaulted and robbed in broad daylight.

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