Moonta

Because its nearly Kernewek Lowender (Cornish Festival) time, the Copper Coast has extra activities, events, food and people. We went to the Cornish Kitchen where you buy Cornish pasties. Over a million of these are sold each Kernewek Lowender, but you can get them any time of year.

They were traditional food for the miners, their wives would cook them and pack them in their husbands' lunchboxes. The twist of pastry on top was for the miners to hold onto, like a handle, so they could eat the rest and throw the twisted part away.

These are not actually "traditional" Cornish pasties, but they're as close as you can get outside of Cornwall. They're pastry filled with beef, potato, parsnips, carrot and pepper.

Most stores in the Copper Coast make displays for the Kernewek, which are usually old mining memorabilia and often traditional costumes, which many people wear for the festival. In one particular window, each Kernewek they display a home-made pie with fish heads and tails sticking out of it, which gets pretty gross by the end of the week.

This is in my favourite store, Stocks, which has old medicine, cameras, pictures, postcards, jewelery, etc.

It also has a big section of old books, a lot of which are quite rare, but cheap.