Start Your Day Positive

Starting the day with a classic Egg Benedict at the Balcony Restaurant overlooking St Ives Harbour is defiantly a must when you’re in St Ives.

Not only does St Ives have some fantastic beaches, it has some of the best beach cafes to be found anywhere. The best known and longest running in its current guise is the Porthminster Beach Cafe. The small whitewashed, 1920s building is located practically at beach level with views right across St Ives Bay. This award winning café is best known for seafood but there is plenty of food on offer. The Porthmeor Beach Café has equally splendid views and speaking from experience the food is great! Third in this trio of top notch beach cafes is the Porthgwidden Cafe. Open all year this little cafe is a certainly in the same league.

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.

The Down-a-long is the old, lower part of St Ives built on the narrow ridge of land that separates the Island to the rest of the town. This part of town is the archetypal image of St Ives with its jumble of cobbled streets lined with whitewashed cottages. The street names are equally evocative and unique with favourites such as Salubrious Place, Teetotal Street and The Digey. Whilst you won’t find many fishermen living in the Down-a-long anymore you will find more galleries, cafes and little shops than you can shake a stick at