The archipelago off the Cornish coast has stunning coastal walking trails, flora and fauna in abundance, festivals and delicious food, with a soundtrack of roaring waves and birdlife
June 2024
Curry tasting in Fife, oysters on Exmoor: expert tips for foodie holidays around Britain
The age of extinction
‘They’re not like puppy dogs. They should be respected’: how to swim with sharks in British waters
April 2024
‘Slick with memories and nostalgia’: writers’ favourite UK trips by car, train and bus
A drive through Scotland, a Cornish sleeper train and a £2 bus trip across Yorkshire offer spectacular scenery, rare wildlife and culinary delights
March 2024
Cornwall’s very own Camino: walking the St Michael’s Way
Accessing the healing power of ancient walking routes needn’t mean weeks of walking, or even going abroad: a 14-mile route in Cornwall proves just as magical
November 2023
From stargazing to a festival of fire: five activities to light up the UK’s dark winter months
Travel and wildlife writers share their favourite places to revel in the dark of winter
October 2023
Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor: a land of megaliths, ghosts, solitude – and literature
Miles from cities and motorways, the Cornish backdrop to Louis de Bernières’s latest novel is a place for spooky hikes and a real escape from the 21st century
September 2023
The pub walk
In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: walking the west Cornwall coast to the Badger pub
Starting in arty St Ives, this route takes in a hill the writer ‘staggered up’ in 1909, the lighthouse that inspired her novel, and finishes in a pub she loved
August 2023
Lakes, mountains and distant isles: 15 of the most tranquil places to visit around the UK
From sculpture gardens to ancient woodland, windswept hills to deserted beaches, here’s where to really escape from it all
Five of the best walks on England’s South West Coast Path
How better to celebrate 50 years of the stunning West Country network than walking one of these Cornwall, Devon or Dorset sections
The Guardian picture essay
Coast to coast: snapshots of Cornwall’s new Tamar valley walk
Our photojournalist samples short walks along the new 87-mile route which hugs the border of Cornwall and Devon
July 2023
‘In the morning they are comatose on the sand’: the Cornish village fighting back against private-school parties
Peaks and valleys: how reconnecting with nature helped me with grief
June 2023
‘It stands over us like a giant’s dining table’: on the trail of the UK’s ancient stones
No longer just for solstice, a new type of tourism means these mysterious rock formations are being visited year round. Our writer joins a stone hunt on the Cornish moors
Mackerel over coals and seaside madeleines – Emily Scott’s Cornish recipes
The chef on becoming the reluctant face of Cornish food and cooking for Joe Biden. Plus, five dishes from her new book, Time & Tide
‘We seem to have slipped into another time’: a walking holiday on the Scilly Isles
On a self-led tour of this sparkling archipelago, the views and sense of ‘otherness’ prove captivating
May 2023
Welcome to Cornwall! Please don’t ruin it for us local people
Natasha Carthew
Country diary
Country diary: The first cuckoo of the year prompts a lively family tradition
February 2023
Cornwall in winter is a blast
Taking the Tesla to Truro? Warnings over lack of electric charging points