Padstow, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The small fishing port of PADSTOW is nearly as popular as Newquay, but has a very different feel. Enclosed within the estuary of the Camel – the only river of any size that empties on Cornwall's north coast – the town long retained its position as the principal fishing port on this coast, and still has something of the atmosphere of a medieval town. Its chief annual festival is also a hangover from times past, the Obby Oss , a May Day romp when one of the locals garbs himself as a horse and prances through the town preceded by a masked and club-wielding "teaser"– a spirited if rather … more »