Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly Slow Travel guide. Tourist information and holiday advice cover everything from cycling, music, pubs and local food to walks, swimming, surfing and heritage attractions. Features Truro, Penzance, Eden Project, Launceston, Newquay, Bodmin Moor, St Ives, Lizard peninsula, Tremenheere, and the Hayle and Fal estuaries.

Thoroughly updated and significantly expanded in this new fourth edition, Bradt's Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly (Slow Travel) is the most well-established guide to a perennially popular British county. Offering in-depth exploration of both frequently visited and less-well-known destinations that will interest locals as much as newcomers, it is written in a friendly, engaging style and includes up-to-date listings of the best (and sometimes least obvious) places to eat, drink and sleep, appealing to all budgets. Long popular with discerning travellers and foodies, the boom in staycations and coverage in TV dramas such as Poldark mean that Cornwall enjoys ever-increasing acclaim as a healthy, wholesome destination. Few places offer such geographical diversity: rugged, storm-lashed north coast and wide, sandy beaches favoured by surfers lie barely a few miles from the south's sheltered creeks, coves and exotic gardens. Wild moorland is dotted with Neolithic standing stones and mining heritage. And, just 28 miles from Land's End, the Isles of Scilly offer an exhilarating blend of tropical exoticism and wild isolation. Cornwall thus possesses an enduring appeal as a year-round destination for visitors of all ages and interests. But such popularity makes it all too easy to overlook the diverse character of the county and its less obvious destinations which is why taking a Slow approach is so rewarding. As local residents have discovered, treasures of all kinds are revealed when you ditch the car and start investigating what lies immediately beyond the doorstep. Explore the 'Cornish Alps', the lonely Rame peninsula, secret beaches or stone circles lost amid remote-feeling uplands. Glimpse the future of sustainable technologies at the Eden Project. Listen to world-class musicians playing in tiny rural churches. Celebrate the comeback of the chough, Cornwall's emblematic bird. Wander around Bodmin Moor's Kerdroya, a classical labyrinth built of Cornish stone hedging. Discover where oysters are still harvested in the traditional way and where the best Cornish ice creams, pasties and cider are made. The ideal companion for a visit, Bradt's Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly (Slow Travel) is an invitation to imbibe the region's rich, diverse delights.

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. Cornwall is enjoying ever-increasing popularity, fuelled by its thriving foodie scene and the growing popularity of staycations . Fully updated and includes the latest developments . Ideal for outdoors enthusiasts, foodies, culture vultures, families About Bradt Travel Guides . Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print . Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards . Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations. Many are resident there, or have been visiting regularly over a number of years . Each new Bradt guide is backed by a dedicated press and social media campaign

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Award-winning travel writer Kirsty Fergusson grew up in the West Country, but did not venture across the Tamar until her fifth decade, when the opportunity arose to move to a remote cottage near Land's End in the far west of Cornwall. Having lived in Greece, Spain and France for many years, Fergusson's knowledge of the region was unclouded by TV images or the partisan adoration, nostalgia or prejudice that remembered childhood holidays seem to inspire. So with fresh eyes, an old bicycle and an even older pair of legs, she set out to explore and write about her adopted county with the same open-minded curiosity and Slow Travel ethic that had taken her plant-hunting in Mongolia and pottering around the Latin quarter of Paris. A keen promoter of the Slow Food movement, Fergusson has twice been appointed to judge in the Food and Farming section of the Royal Cornwall Show.

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Isles of Scilly, A Slow approach, How this book is arranged

1 LAUNCESTON & THE NORTHEAST

Getting around, Launceston, A wriggling route to Morwenstow, Along the coast from Morwenstow to Tintagel

2 MID-CORNWALL NORTH: THE CAMEL ESTUARY TO HOLYWELL BAY

Getting around, Around the Camel estuary, From Trevose Head to Holywell Bay, Away from the coast

3 BODMIN MOOR

Getting around, The north Moor, The Moor south of the A30

4 SOUTHEAST CORNWALL: FROM THE TAMAR TO POLPERRO

Getting around, Along the Tamar, The Rame peninsula, Around Looe, The Looe valleys

5 THE FOWEY VALLEY & THE CORNISH ALPS

Getting around, The Fowey Valley, Around St Austell & the Cornish Alps

6 THE MINING HEARTLAND

Getting around, From Perranporth to the Hayle estuary, The copper & tin towns: Hayle, Redruth & Camborne, Godolphin country

7 TRURO & THE FAL ESTUARY

Getting around, Truro, Along the river from Truro to Falmouth, The Roseland peninsula

8 SOUTHWEST CORNWALL: THE LIZARD PENINSULA

Getting around, From Prussia Cove to the Helford River, The shores of the Helford River, The peninsula

9 PENZANCE, ST IVES & THE PENWITH PENINSULA

Getting around, Penzance, Penzance’s hinterland, The south coast, The north coast & Penwith moors, Crossing the peninsula: from St Ives to Marazion

10 THE ISLES OF SCILLY

Getting there, Getting around, A taste of the Isles of Scilly, St Mary’s, The Off Islands

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