Today's post is a guest post, written in collaboration with Haven Holidays. I am a huge fan of Haven, we have been twice this year and we have already booked for next year. I love the South West, there is so much to down there, any time of the year. So I will leave you to read the guest post, about exciting things to do in one of my favourite places, Cornwall
Celebrating the harvest
festival
Cornwall has long been one
of our favourite places to go on a family holiday or short break, but
autumn is one time of year that we’ve never come to visit this
lovely English county. Most people think that the holiday season is
over by the time autumn comes around but they couldn’t be wrong. We
headed to Cornwall last October and found plenty to do –
particularly due to the abundance of seasonal events taking place.
That’s why we’re eager to enjoy
an October holiday this year and
experience the traditional and well-loved harvest festival.
For those who don’t know
much about the harvest festival, it’s an annual celebration that
takes place around the time of the harvest. Harvest festivals take
place all around the world (think America and Canada’s Thanksgiving
celebrations) and has been celebrated in Britain since Pagan times.
It’s often celebrated in schools and churches and people often make
food parcels to give to people in need.
But having a quick Google
of what’s going on in Cornwall for the harvest festival, I found
there’s much more than just that. In Cornwall they have whole
events dedicated to this annual celebration, which sound great for
basing a short holiday around. What’s more, Haven’s
campsites in Cornwall are open until November so
we know we’ll be able to have a great place to stay for when we’ve
finished exploring the Harvest festival celebrations.
Indulge at the Harvest
Food Festival
Food
is at the centre of the harvest festival and one of the events in
Cornwall I’m looking forward to most is the Harvest
Food Festival at the Eden Project.
Running for a whole five weeks from Saturday 7th
September until Sunday 13th
October 2013, this food festival promises to be one of the highlights
of the Cornish calendar and I’m certainly not going to miss it.
The whole event is taking
place at Cornwall’s famous Eden Project and according to the
festival website, each of the five weeks has its own theme.
This makes it easy for you
to plan your holiday around the events that interest you most, which
is exactly what we’re going to do. We’re avid watchers of
Masterchef and The Great British Bake Off so we’re gutted we’ve
already missed the celebrity chefs week. And while our taste buds
aren’t quite ready to handle the spiciness of chilli week, we are
eager to try something new.
That’s why we’re
planning our trip to Cornwall to coincide with the Baobab Festival at
the beginning of October – a celebration of this African super
fruit that contains six times more vitamin C than oranges. This
sweet, tasty fruit is grown in the Eden Project’s biome and I know
my kids will love all the interesting facts about them. Did you know
that some people believe that picking
a flower off a baobab tree will get you eaten by a lion,
but drinking the water that baobab seeds have been soaked in will
supposedly protect you from crocodile attacks? I’m not sure how
many crocodiles we’ll meet in Cornwall but you can never be too
careful!
Baobab
fruit
Source:
http://www.edenproject.com/visit-us/whats-here/plant-a-z/baobab?gclid=CPiRydXF1LkCFQMd3godWBgAgg
The Eden Project’s
harvest festival celebrations also include events and activities that
run for the whole five weeks so we know that there’s certain things
we won’t miss out on whenever we go. Every day from 12pm until 2pm
there’s a storytelling session where you can listen to harvest
tales from the Mediterranean. And if your kids are anything like
ours, they’ll love getting stuck in and being creative. That’s
why we’re planning to take them to a session that teaches you how
to make corn dollies – dolls made of corn that were traditionally
made to ensure that the harvest would be bountiful. These demos also
run for the whole five weeks so don’t worry about missing out on
them either.
My advice is to look up
the events before you go – like us you’ll probably have specific
tastes, particularly when it comes to food, so plan ahead and find
the right celebrations for you!
x Ojo x
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