Cornwall is brimming with cycle trails and at Lower Barns we are real fans. Any excuse to get on a bike. What is there not to like about a big cooked breakfast, a day out on fabulous off road trails, to challenge you, make you laugh and feel full up on life. Then once you […]
Some of the best memories are made in flip flops on a Cornish sandy beach. Sunshine, turqouise ocean, dramatic cliffs as the back drop. This is where… Joe proposed to Della on this bank holiday weekend down in Cornwall. Traveling down in their camper van Cali (California) where she came from 10 years ago. They […]
Cornwall has some of the most magnificent and beautiful gardens to choose from; here are just a few to try out this September. Trebah Garden – near Falmouth Trebah Garden is a beautiful sub-tropical paradise with a stunning coastal backdrop. The 25 acre garden descends to its own beach on the beautiful Helford River and […]
Don’t miss….. The world famous Kneehigh Theatre premiere of ‘Dead Dog in a Suitcase’ in Cornwall. So excited and just can’t wait for the stunning explosion of theatrical antics at the amazing Lost Gardens of Heligan, which will be home to one of Cornwall’s most celebrated theatre groups….. Kneehigh Theatre premiere ‘Dead Dog in a Suitcase […]
I’m saying “hurray” because those of us that grew up in and around St Austell have such great memories about Carlyon Bay, also known as Crinnis. As teenagers we went to roller discos, had nights out at The Ocean Suite, Bentleys and Gossips. Most of us went to our first gigs at The Cornwall Coliseum […]
It amazes me how far we will travel for a proper Cream Tea! And, when we find it we love having a lively conversation about whether the jam or the cream goes on first! I must say I do like to put the jam first, then a big dollop of Rodda’s cream. I thought […]
The Day The World Changed : 100 years after the event, there is no first hand memory of the people who lived through it and yet, memory is persistent. It does its work through faded photographs, family anecdotes passed from one generation to the next, treasured letters, medals, old work ledgers, census and military records; […]
The Glory of the Garden by Rudyard Kipling Our England is a garden, such gardens are not made By singing:–“Oh,how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade. Our England is a garden that is full of stately views, Of borders, beds and shrubberies and lawns and avenues, With statues on the terraces and peacocks strutting by; […]
I know us Cornish lot are always boasting about something but I’m sure you will agree that being able to have breakfast at Fifteen, Watergate Bay on the north coast, a picnic lunch on Bodmin Moor, in the middle of Cornwall, followed by a cream tea at Tresanton on the south coast is pretty good […]