Preparing for a trip to Padstow

I shall be off to a (hopefully) sunny Cornwall shortly to savour the delights of the town put on the map by Mr Stein and, of course, the late Chalky the dog.

Obviously food being a big draw to the area, it will be no surprise to any of my regular blog readers that the premise of the trip is to look at what’s on offer for galloping gourmets ( I know, tough job!).

While much of the foodie activity will be featured on my other blog, I’ll also produce a travelogue for this blog and a print feature which will be published in the Manchester Evening News at some later point.

As I detailed yesterday (see Travel page), I’m looking to do travel writing a little differently from now on, so would be interested in hearing from anyone who has anything to add about the area I’ll be writing about.

Have you visited the town yourself? Reported on it? What’s is like to live there? Visited for a holiday?

Any information or suggestions gratefully received in the comments or feel free to cast a vote in the poll .

This weekend’s trip to Cornwall is being funding by Air Southwest, Avis and Richardson Hotels.