Cornwall may not be the first place that springs to mind when you think about Christmas shopping, but there are many gems to be found whilst exploring on your Cornish cottage holiday. There’s no need to spend hours on a coach to reach the Christmas markets abroad when everything you could want to make the [...]

Being a company who rent out Holiday Cottages in Cornwall, it is only to right that sometimes the staff at Cornish Traditional Cottages get to go out and explore the beautiful countryside for themselves. 5 members of the team swapped the office for the great outdoors and geared up for walking the Cancer Research Cornwall [...]

As the last day of the Ryder Cup tees off at Celtic Manor, golf has taken the top spot of the world stage.  Players across the nation are looking to get a sneaky 18 holes in or looking to plan next year’s golfing trip. With picturesque courses and stunning views across the countryside, when it [...]

What better way to enhance your stay in one of our Cornwall cottages then to feast on some Cornish traditional produce. This weekend saw the increasingly popular Cornwall Food and Drink Festival take place at Lemon Quay in Truro The Cornwall Food and Drink Festival, which took place between the 24th and 26th September, saw [...]

When it comes to sport in Cornwall, the weekend’s agenda for many locals will include Rugby, Rugby and more Rugby. Cornwall has a great rugby heritage spanning way back to 1883, when the Cornwall Rugby Football Union or CRFU was founded. Recent man mountains to come out of the county include 2003 World Cup winning [...]

By staying in your own holiday cottage in Cornwall means that you’ll be able relax far more than if you were staying in a hotel or B&B should the weather take a turn for the worst.

…magnificent yacht races, boats and catamarans involved in the Henri-Lloyd Regatta Week, with late services to ensure enjoyment of the Red Arrows and spectacular firework displays.

With some planning and a bit of imagination (and sometimes a lot of guts!) there are some interesting alternatives to travelling around Cornwall while on your self catering holiday and uncover some little gems you wouldn’t necessarily see whilst using the most well trodden paths throughout the South West.

With the theme for National Pet Month 3rd April – 3rd May 2010 being, ‘Healthy pets make happy pets’, what better way to keep them both happy and healthy companions than by bringing them on holiday with you?

Here at Cornish Traditional Cottages, we have a wide range of self catering holiday cottages that are dog friendly; combine that with an abundance of outdoor activities for both human and animal to enjoy and it’s bound for success. Cornwall boasts hundreds of coastal paths, many beaches throughout the year allowing dog access plus many pubs that will offer a welcome rest for both you and your dog.

With the lure of longer, lighter, brighter days its not only the visitors that have started to make their way to Cornwall for the promise of a break after the long and particularly hard winter we’ve just had. …….fantastic self catering accommodation. Bodmin Moor us an idyllic location for spotting some of the county’s best undisturbed wildlife.