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Looe Festival by
the Sea 2006
Holiday Cottages Looe is delighted to announce it’s
support for the Looe Festival by the Sea which will be held on
Saturday June 3rd and Sunday June 4th 2006.
Historic Looe has been a
centre for fishing and seafaring for centuries and is located just
20 miles west of Plymouth with it’s mainline train station,
airport and superb road connections, and with it’s own railway
station, travel to Looe easy and convenient.
Holiday Cottages Looe has a fine and ever growing choice of
quality self-catering cottages,
many of which have already agreed to support the event by offering
long-weekend break packages so that you can enjoy the fun for the
whole weekend, arriving on Friday and leaving on Monday. Since
Looe is such a fantastic place to base yourself for a wonderful
week in Cornwall, you can of course decide to stay for a whole
week. You won’t regret it and whatever your interests, there is
so much to do in Looe and the surrounding area
that you are sure to have a great time.
This is the 4th biennial Looe Festival by the Sea
and the weekend is sure to be fun packed, with lots of
entertaining events that are being organised by local groups. If
you are interested in photography, music, choirs, bands, dance or
drama to name but a few of the attractions and events that will
take place in June, then this is a weekend not to be missed.
The primary focus of the Looe Festival by the Sea is to
celebrate Looe’s centuries old fishing industry which stills
thrives today with numerous day boat fishermen landing their catch
at the local Looe fish market. Looe fish is much heralded for
it’s freshness and quality and has been praised by non other
than the world famous Rick Stein.
With a daily supply of fresh local fish, you can sample these
delights all year round at the many quality restaurants
and pubs in Looe and during the festival, the local
restaurants will all be offering some very special gastronomic
delights – not to be missed.
In Looe that weekend, you may even be able to get a free
lunch as there will be food tastings on the quayside !
There are many events on offer that celebrate Looe’s fishing
industry, it’s history and
the sea. Local fisherman will be providing tours of their boats
and trawlers, there will be talks on the challenge of catching the
fish and also demonstrations of fish filleting and processing at
the Looe fish market.
Looe has a RNLI lifeboat station and there will be displays in
the lifeboat house (just by Banjo Pier), a helicopter rescue and a
maritime band. Anglian Princess, a coastguard vessel, will be
moored in Looe Bay and hopefully there will be visits to the bay
from Royal Navy vessels from the nearby Devonport Naval base.
Looe bay will also be alive with smaller craft. There is the
“all comers” around the island race and gig racing in Cornish
Pilot Gigs. They were
originally used to take Pilots out to vessels coming off the
Atlantic, first crew there got the job. They are now raced around
the west country for pleasure and are quite an impressive sight.
The Looe Festival By The
Sea also includes displays by the RNLI, incorporating a
spectacular helicopter rescue, a chance to sea the lifeboat crew
in action live!
Music and drama groups will be performing throughout the
weekend. The West Looe wine
tent will be hosting bands and musicians, whilst at various
locations drama and dancing groups will also be performing,
including a re-enactment of a gallows hanging!!
And of course there will be the ever popular Pirates and
Buccaneers, reminding us of Looe’s
shady past supplying the high sea’s with some of the most
notorious pirates in history.
A daily listing of events will be available from our website as
soon as they are finalised and published, so please come back to
find out exactly What’s On
and when.
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