Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Day 9 (Sun 16th May 2021) Dartmouth: Moving on from Stoke Gabriel, we visited Dartmouth, parking for the morning in the Park and Ride, which provides a regular service into the town centre. Our bus each way was an open-top sightseeing bus which advertised city tours of Cambridge. We didn’t …
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Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Day 8 (Sat 15th May 2021) Our site at Stoke Gabriel was a little too far to walk to Totnes, so we shared a taxi to the town with our friends, Jeeves and Michelle. We had originally booked to stay on a site nearly in the centre of Totnes, but …
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Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Day 7 (Fri 14th May 2021) We had stayed for a second night at Manor Farm and would be staying at Stoke Gabriel for the next two nights. We decided to visit Topsham, a large village in Devon, which lies between Exmouth and Exeter on the River Exe. The River …
Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Day 6 (Thu 13th May 2021) We stayed the night at Manor Farm, a site near Seaton. It was raining again this morning, so we decided to take Fufu to Beer, the next village on the coast, to the west. View from Manor Farm Campsite, over Seaton Beer: We spent …
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Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Day 5 (Wed 12th May 2021) The small town of Lyme Regis is famous for the fact that it is situated on the Jurassic Coast and many fossils have been found in the rocks, washed out of the cliffs. The town itself is busy and a little commercialised, but pleasant …
Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Days 3/4 (Mon 10th - Tue 11th May 2021) With an early start from Glastonbury, we arrived on the south coast. We were booked onto a site for two nights, near to Charmouth, but we decided to visit the coast first, with a temporary halt at West Bay, just south …
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Dorset and Devon Coast Trip, Days 1/2 (Sat 8th - Sun 9th May 2021) Yes, I know Glastonbury is not in Devon or Dorset, or indeed on the coast! It is, however where we broke our journey south and is therefore a part of the trip as a whole. The trip from the North West …
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Yorkshire Coast Trip; Day 11 (Mon 26th April 2021) On our final day of the trip, we left our friends who headed south, to visit Runswick Bay before heading home ourselves. Runswick Bay is a small village to the north of Whitby. It is stunningly beautiful and very reminiscent of villages in Cornwall. It featured …
Yorkshire Coast Trip, Days 9/10 (Sat 24th - Sun 25th April 2021) Our site near Whitby, was in a place called Ruswarp. In theory, we could have caught the train into Whitby from there, but they seemed very infrequent, still the option was there. Instead we walked along a path which runs alongside the railway …
Yorkshire Coast Trip, Day 8 (Fri 24th April 2021) Moving on from Robin Hoods Bay, we will be spending a couple of nights in Whitby, but have decided to visit the coastal village of Staites beforehand. Staithes is in many ways similar to Robin Hoods Bay, in that it requires a steep descent into the …
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