The Eden Project Beer Festival

A Cornish gins bar, 60 beers and ciders, many from Cornwall, plus Eden small brews – what more could a beer lover want?  Dancing to live bands perhaps?  Delicious gourmet food? 

Blue Monkey’s Gourmet Attractions

The 6th annual Plymouth Seafood Festival takes place this weekend, 16th and 17th September 2017 at the Barbican.  The harbour transforms into a ‘culinary extravaganza with live cookery demonstrations, the popular fish auction, family entertainment and of course,

Family fun on a budget: Explore Plymouth

There’s plenty for the family to do on a budget in Plymouth. We’ve listed just a few that don’t have to cost the earth.

West Hoe Park in Plymouth is a

Haunted Plymouth Ghost Walks

I had an email today from our last guest at Blue Monkey who asked me if we had any ghosts… I replied that I hadn’t had any complaints!  However, I did a little investigating and

Fed up of the sandy beach?  Mount Wise Swimming Pools is a complex of 3 outdoor pools: a 25 main pool, a small paddling pool for young children and an activity pool including a fountain, whirlpool and bubble pool. You can picnic and sunbathe

Some brilliant and useful tips from the Tesco bloggers:

1. Cheat a beach sheet

Use a fitted sheet to protect your belongings from sand. Simply place your beach/cool bags in each corner of the sheet and pull the corners up over them. You’re left with

Need more space in your case? Try these genius packing hacks and space-saving tricks for a quick get-away (courtesy of Tesco!)

Packing pro
Wrap your toiletries (a bottle of perfume, for example) in a pair of socks, then place the whole thing inside your shoes. On your way home,

Penlee Point is a beautiful coastal walk for you, your friends and your family to enjoy

Penlee Point (Penn Legh) is Cornish for stone-slab headland and the point is a coastal headland southeast of the village of Rame in Southeast Cornwall,

This week Blue Monkey is going Green!  We’re looking at local charity Rame Peninsula Beach Care.  Here is what they do for our local beaches:

“We run monthly beach cleans, usually attracting between 30 and 60 volunteers, removing

This week at Blue Monkey we’re looking at places of local interest. One of the best is the Eden Project. This is a blog post from one of the gardeners there:

Hi, I’m Annabelle, one of the Skilled Horticulturalists in the Outdoor Biome. There are three teams that look after the outside landscape. My team, under