CORNWALL WITH CAROLINE QUENTIN

If you are looking for a tour of Cornwall and its wonderful remote views and paths unknown to the average tourist - this is not it! The eight episodes are more of an advertisement for various aspects of touring possibilities - a winery, a campsite, a rental agency, Mousehole, and a few other spots. Each episode repeats exactly what went on in the prior episode.... all in all - lovingly made with a nice feeling about the Cornish folk - but we all know that already - and really would have liked to see more of the geographic and architectural treasures and have much less repetition. Not worth $40.00!

This disappointed in that it only visited a very few of the many interesting places in Cornwall. There was a lot of repetition of characters and scenery. One visit to each site would have been sufficient, had it been comprehensive and not so disjointed. It almost seemed like a promotion for a camp site, a holiday rental agency, and a local winery. The St. Michael's Mount visit was the best part.

Cornwall is one of the loveliest areas of England. I purchased this to remember our wonderful trip there, to see the sights once again of the place where my maternal grandparents came from. Rarely have I been so disappointed. This is a dvd of people going fishing, renting homes, operating vineyards and men looking silly with stuffed bosoms. My ancestors and my relatives there must be horrified at the portrayal of these lovely people. There were very few of the beautiful places I loved so much--other than some nice scenery on the coast by the cliffs, but the narrator gave no idea where these were. Mousehole is pretty but all we got to see was someone renting a tiny home there. I'm sure Dylan Thomas found many more interesting things there. Mt. St. Michael is beautiful but not the pirate event shown. Where was St. Ives? Tintagel, the supposed home of King Arthur? The palm trees and incredible garden in Penzance? The history? If anyone knows of a dvd that covers the history, the uniqueness and the many interesting places, I'll be the first in line to buy it.

This is a reasonably good first time look for anyone interested in this beautiful county.What spoils it though is a lot of timewasting showing off upper class bed & breakfast establishments instead of concentrating more on the beautiful towns & vlilages and more. For example,there is nothing on the Eden Project,or even a brief look at Lands End,at the very tip of England.

Beautiful country and was so glad to get to see some of it. I was hoping for more "sight seeing" kind of thing and not so much about local festivals,etc. Caroline was great, good sense of humor and very informative. Mixed feelings on this one.

Dissapointed in this dvd. The area is so beautiful and so many small towns to see, but this film seemed to me to be more representative of the people and their lives and doings rather than on the beauty of the countryside! People having picnics and block parties, and fun times can be seen anywhere, but beautiful seaside villages and farms are what I wanted to see!

There was a lot of repetition in this DVD. We saw the same footage repeatedly throughout the whole series. I would have preferred more villages and scenery than was shown.

After watching the series "Doc Martin," my wife an I decided to buy this travelogue. Despite some repetition, we found it to be an excellent description by a seasoned narrator of this beautiful part of Britain that we have, unfortunately, never visited./An Anglophile

Having lived in Cornwall for a number of years, gone to school there and worked on a long-liner from one of Cornwall's busiest harbours, I was pleased to see this three hour DVD production "Cornwall with Caroline Quentin" available for purchase. Now resident in Duncan, British Columbia, I looked forward to awakening my memories of travels around that beautiful and interesting county. What a disappointment!The eight episodes and three hours are nothing more than a chat with a couple of restaurants, a real estate agent, a house rental agency, a winery and a camp ground with much of the material repeated in other episodes. There are a couple of interesting segments, the brief reference to the fishing activity, Prideaux Place and a short clip of St. Michael's Mount and Mousehole. The scenery is briefly displayed in the introduction, repeated with every episode, and short transitional shots without any reference to the location.If this is to be a documentary about Cornwall why is there no reference to the cathedral city of Truro, the central market town of St. Austell, the beautiful and major historical fishing village and harbour of Mevagissey, the cliff walk from that town to Gorran Haven, Caerhays Castle, Restormel Castle, the china clay industry, Bodmin Moor, Camborne and the historical tin mining industry, the May 1st. celebrations at Helston, the artist town of St. Ives with its Tate Gallery, the town of Fowey - home of the author Daphne du Maurier, the major fishing ports of Padstow and Newquay, the Eden Project at St. Blazey to name but a few.With so much beautiful scenery, interesting places and historical background available for a documentary how can this collection a "advertisements" be called a documentary of Cornwall? It does very little to show or educate the viewer about this part of England.