Pirates, Poetry and Prosperity: A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Fowey

Hi, I’m Becky Frost, a proud Cornish storyteller and founder of Penelewey Tours and Penelewey Audio Story Tours, also known as PAST. I create immersive walking audio tours and GPS guided audio experiences on the VoiceMap platform, bringing history, culture, and place vividly to life across Cornwall, the South West of England and beyond.

I specialise in historical walking audio tours, indoor audio guides, and place based storytelling for heritage sites, cultural organisations, cities, and coastal towns. My work covers research, scriptwriting, narration, and delivery of audio tours from concept through to launch, ensuring each experience is authentic, accessible, and thoughtfully paced.

As a fisherman’s daughter raised by the sea, storytelling has always been part of my world. My work is rooted in landscape, memory, and the voices of ordinary people, those whose stories are often walked past rather than truly heard. Through carefully researched and locally voiced audio tours, I invite listeners to slow down and connect with the layers of history beneath their feet.

My greatest fascination lies in the Celtic period, shaped by the movement of people, ideas, trade, and shared culture, alongside Cornwall’s long history of resilience and its ongoing fight to retain identity and land. These themes run quietly through my work, blending local history with wider European narratives in a way that feels grounded and human.

I have been commissioned to create audio interpretation for one of Cornwall’s most significant historic religious buildings, alongside developing audio tours for towns, cities, and coastal places across the region. Accessibility and inclusivity sit at the heart of everything I do, audio tours allow people to explore independently, at their own pace, using their own devices, supporting different learning styles and access needs.

My narration is delivered in a clear English accent with a soft Cornish tone, warm, calm, and welcoming, designed to feel like walking alongside a local rather than being lectured. I write, research, and voice my tours myself, ensuring clarity, care, and authenticity from start to finish.

We don’t walk past history with audio tours, we walk through it.

The tour begins at the edge of Caffa Mill Car Park in Fowey, close to the Bodinnick Ferry. Look out for a small hut at the top of the slipway called Fowey Seafari — that’s your starting point. You can begin with or without coffee, entirely up to you.

Caffa Mill is a busy car park, especially during peak times. If you’d prefer something quieter, Old Station Yard Car Park is just a short walk away and offers parking at £1 per hour or a 24-hour rate.

If you’re arriving by bus, you may find yourself walking part of the route in reverse before you start, but the good news is you’ll finish close to the main bus stops in town.

If you’re travelling by train, get off at Par Station, where regular buses run through to Fowey.