Cornwall Travel Guide
6/24/2008 at 10:05 AM
Tags: Train Travel, Trains, UK Travel (all tags)
England doesn't seem that big when you look at it on a map, but a journey from London down to the pretty southwest areas of Cornwall and Devin does take a while. Now that rail company First Great Western has revamped the London to Penzance sleeper train route, however, you don't have to waste time getting there.
This route's been there a while, but now that it's had a £2 million ($3.9 million) upgrade, Great Western is hoping to get a whole heap more passengers. A designer who's worked for Porsche has done new interiors for the trains and all fixtures, fittings and even the toilets have been completely upgraded.
The last time we traveled this route, it was neat and clean enough and very practical for saving a night's accommodation cost--now we're keen to try it again and do it in style instead. With a romantic name like the Night Riviera Sleeper, how can we go wrong?
Related Stories:
· First Great Western Night Riviera Sleeper [Official Site]
· Night Riviera Sleeper Train to Cornwall [Travelbite]
· Train Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: JZjr]
by amandak
6/28/2007 at 9:03 AM
Tags: Animals, England, RTW (all tags)
We all love a good round-the-world journey but you'll be surprised to hear about just who's been making a 17,000-mile, 15-year trek from China, soon to arrive on the south-west beaches of England.
The big travelers are a bunch of rubber ducks. They fell off the back of a boat (literally) in 1992 and an obsessive oceanographer named Curtis Ebbesmeyer has been tracking them ever since. A few landed on Alaskan shores and now a big team of them are expected to wash up near Cornwall over the summer. Keep an eye out because the manufacturers are offering a £50 reward if you find one; although rumour has it collectors will pay 10 times that amount on E-bay.
Related Stories:
· Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Land on British Shores [Daily Mail]
[Photo: The Mainzelmann]
by amandak
11/17/2006 at 11:30 AM
Tags: Tourist Attractions, Celebrities, Museums, Celeb News, Food, England (all tags)
Not everything that a celebrity touches should become famous. But tell that to the owners of a small café in Kingsand, Cornwall, who decided to start what they like to describe as the "smallest museum in Cornwall": the Museum of Celebrity Leftovers.
We're almost a bit ashamed to say that it is exactly as it sounds. Celebrities (minor ones, mostly) who happen to drop by the Old Boatstore Café and don't quite finish off their meal get the leftovers stored in a specially designed cabinet. If you want to see singer Pete Doherty's leftover crust, or croissant crumbs and butter wrappers left by other even less famous British celebs, then Kingsand is the place for you. If you're something special and leave a slurp in your café latte, that might get put up on the special shelf for the world to see, too.
[Photo:
BBC]
Related Stories:
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Crumby Tribute Famous Patrons [BBC]
·
Nights in a Tree in Cornwall [Jaunted]
by amandak
9/14/2006 at 9:10 AM
Tags: adventure travel, camping, Britain (all tags)
Most travelers like to curl up in a comfy bed in front of their hotel room TV at the end of a touristy day. Others choose to sleep in a tree.
We're not talking cosy cabin treehouse style sleeping here. In
Cornwall, south-west England, tree-huggers can take a rope-and-harness-assisted climb up into a big ol' tree and stay the night in a "tree boat", a four-cornered hammock which they claim is really comfortable.
We're not sure if it gets windy down in Cornwall, but the
Mighty Oak Tree Climbing Co uses the word "safe" much more frequently than natural in their promotions. But still,
koalas sleep every night in a tree and we don't hear about too many of them falling out: And they don't even have the benefit of a tree boat.
by amandak
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