One of North Cornwall’s most varied and successful festival seasons gets off to a cracking start next month with a huge programme of events covering everything from walking, eating, drinking and history to art, poetry and boats. The BosFest 2010 programme officially gets underway on 19th April 2010 with the launch of Walking Week. Now in its third year the festival curtain raiser has a bigger selection of walks, short, long, easy and tough than ever before and advance enquiries prove there’s no shortage of interest in North Cornwall’s spectacular coastline and scenery.
As well as circular walks for all abilities in and around Boscastle itself, there will be opportunities to enjoy more splendid and perhaps more strenuous walks around neighbouring villages like Port Isaac, Tintagel and Crackington Haven. New to the programme this year is the chance to learn about a Victorian murder mystery on Bodmin Moor, when walkers will get a step by step if not blow by blow account of a young woman’s death and a hanging that still today causes legal debate. And after the outdoor reality, the intrigue continues with a real life court room experience at Bodmin Shire Hall.
Literature lovers are equally well catered for with a walk in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy who, although more usually acquainted with his native Dorset, began his professional writing career on the Cornish coast with a chance meeting that changed the course of his life. After an absence of more than 40 years he again returned to the area on the death of the woman he met in Boscastle and produced what many regard as some of the finest poetry in the English language.
Walking Week continues from 19th to 23rd April and information and tickets for all events can be obtained from the Visitor Centre on Boscastle Harbour. The second part of BosFest 2010, Cornwall’s Real Food, Arts and Craft Festival, takes place on 2nd and 3rd October, with an opening night event on 30th September.
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