Celebrate this month’s National Apple Day with a visit to Ely’s Apple Festival, a day-long celebration of the fruit, which has been running for nearly 20 years. Taking place on Palace Green, opposite the Cathedral, on 19 October, the event is one of the best-loved apple festivals in the area, featuring competitions, demos, and games including apple and spoon races and an apple shy.
You can also bring along your own apples to get identified by experts from East of England Apples and Orchard Project, and join in with non-appley fun such as morris dancing and storytelling sessions. Naturally, there’ll be plenty of tasty apple-based food and drink to try, too, from pork and apple sausages to cider and apple tea.
