Boutique Retreats have luxury self-catering cottages by the sea throughout the UK

The Old Grammar School

Cocktails in teapots and homemade tapas to tuck in to – The Old Grammar School in Truro serves up a lip-smacking taste of retro refreshment in a laid back atmosphere.

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Located on the western edge of Mount's Bay about three miles west of Penzance, this is a place that the guidebooks call the quintessential British harbour village and that Dylan Thomas crowned 'the loveliest village in England'.

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A trip to Boscastle Museum

From Harry Potter to the latest spate of vampire and zombie films, it seems we can't get enough of magic and the supernatural. Go to the museum to find out the reality behind the fiction.

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Johns Deli

John’s is a family business, started back in the 1940s. Now the baton’s been passed to the fourth generation and they’re clearly more than up to the task.

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Sams

Food for thought at Sam’s on the Beach, an old lifeboat station at Polkerris that is now the place to eat without getting sand in your sandwiches.

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DeWynns

Cornish Afternoon Tea at De Wynns, Falmouth. Whatever you do, make sure you put the jam on before the cream, or else incur the wrath of the Cornish and risk being banished back whence you came to Devon.

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Falmouth

Beaches, bistros and boutique holidays in Falmouth, the seaside town on the edge of the world's deepest natural harbour, so expect a nautical ambience.

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Fowey History

The anchor is up, and the harbour-chain down, And the bells they ring merrily out from the town; We shall soon find a Spaniard or a Frenchman, they say, And bring something back to this snug little bay” Gallants of Fowey, Henry Sewell Stokes, 1871

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Fowey Side Entrance

The author Daphne Du Maurier loved Fowey. She instantly connected with this pretty town as a place where she had the freedom to walk, to wander and to write. It fed her creative senses 50 years ago, and I wanted to find out whether an autumn meander would feed mine too.

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Tintagel and Boscastle

Tintagel Castle, located on a rocky peninsular off the north coast of Cornwall, may be a ruin today, but you can easily trace the footprint of what must once have been a mighty fortress.

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