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If you are staying in Devon I can recommend Paignton and Torquay, Torbay is a lovely area. In Cornwall I can recommend Perranporth. If you are looking for accomodation visit http://www.westcountryhols.co.uk |
Cornwall and Devon recommendations? • Page 2
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emr200583 1 posts
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Rose-of-Sorrow 572 posts
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Registered 14 years agoTremendosaurus wrote:
pjmaybe wrote:
/hates Devon.
Dunno why, place always depresses the living fuck out of me. Some parts of the moors are OK though.
/hates peej
Yer better off up north bey. We don't want yer type round ere anyhow!
.. and while I'm at it: "Get orf moi laaaaaaaaaaand!"
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Super_Zee 2,105 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI love Fowey, right down on the Cornish coast. It's small and beautiful, you can point at Daphne Du Maurier's old house and you might see the Bergerac guy.
I've stayed there a few times (including watching the total eclipse on a cliff overlooking the bay) as a good friend grew up there and the best Cornish Pasties I've ever eaten were from a place in the main town next to the church. -
I live, at 'home', in central Devon. Anyone who says it's shit is blind. East/South side of the moor, little valleys and rivers = love.
Dartmouth/Salcombe
Parts of the moor.
Parts of N/Devon, I much prefer south, however.
Camel Estuary/Polseath, out of season.
Cornwall is gorgeous in part, depressing in others. -
Mokero 80 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAll these people are recommending rubbish places, dant listen to 'em. Do South West Devon like Teignmouth/Shaldon/Dawlish, you can camp in my garden =).................. Or just go to a campsite.
tbh all the moors stuff I agree with, Dartmoor is awesome. -
Duffking 16,964 posts
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Registered 15 years agoemr200583 wrote:
If you are staying in Devon I can recommend Paignton and Torquay, Torbay is a lovely area.
In Cornwall I can recommend Perranporth.
If you are looking for accomodation visit http://www.westcountryhols.co.uk
Since I live in Torbay I would probably tell you exact opposite.
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Youthist 14,723 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTake a brolly. -
200k 183 posts
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Registered 13 years agoAny good recomendations for hotels in Devon Cornwall? Want to spend 4/5 nights down there taking in as many of the places bigged up in this thread as possible. Nice hotel or rented accom, not too dear - going early march so should avoid the tourist season. -
Ginger 7,256 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI stayed here for my stag do - it was dirt cheap and has a sauna. It's in Torquay as well so plenty of bars in walking distance -
JohnnyWashnGo 1,544 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMrs JohnnyWashngo and I did the same thing last year... took a week off work and drove around the south of England. Cornwall was friggin ace.
We bought the british bed and breakfast guide, planned nothing, winged it by driving down there, seeing some sights, calling a couple of b&bs or farmhouses to find a room and heading in that general direction. Worked a treat and we met so many nice people along the way.
One thing I highly recommend if you are in the Cornwall area is a visit to the Minack Theatre (http://www.minack.com/). The road that leads you to the place is the most bizarre road I have driven on. So small and narrow and winding. The actual theatre is great. The chairs are all carved from the stone that is part of the ground making tthe seating very cold, but really quite enjoyable. -
jerrymanu 3,115 posts
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Registered 15 years agoTo second Johnny's post above. Head to the Minack but also make sure you sample the beach down below as well - Porth Curnow. Its a beautiful part of the country. Iirc, there's a small museum, a couple of pubs a hotel or two. It's all very lovely 
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localnotail 23,079 posts
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Registered 13 years agoPolzeath has good surf and is not too far from Heligan in the car. Keep an eye out for the ghost at Heligan btw -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBeen to the Minack twice, first time was to see A Midsummer Night's Dream, as the sun set over the sea... Beautiful. Second time we took our eldest daughter (#2 wasn't around then!) and saw teh Grimm Tales, whilst watching basking sharks in the bay. Magical.
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I went to uni in Exeter, so I'm a big Devon fan. Dawlish is my secret top tip. Lovely place. -
silentbob 29,527 posts
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Registered 19 years agoPort Isaac! Used to live in the Wheelhouse restaurant (probably called something else now) on the Platt right by the sea.
Lovely place, but you wouldn't want to live there.*
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Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agokalel wrote:
I went to uni in Exeter, so I'm a big Devon fan.
Did you have one of those window stickers in the vein of Carlsberg? -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoDon't go to Dairyland in Cornwall.
Do go to the Otter sanctuary just outside Launceston, which is made of all kinds of awesome and has a fucking superb cafe. -
Murbal wrote:
kalel wrote:
I went to uni in Exeter, so I'm a big Devon fan.
Did you have one of those window stickers in the vein of Carlsberg?
Bumper sticker yeah -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoSt Ives is also awesome, as is Polperro.
Do not, repeat do not go to St Austell unless you want to be transported back in time to the 1970s and experience a town that smells as bad as it looks as bad as it tastes -
JuanKerr 37,710 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAnother shout out for St Ives, great place.
And you're bang on about St Austell, peej. -
Dirtbox 92,595 posts
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Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI went to St Austell in the 80s. Saw Bucks Fizz. Never went back. -
pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWas a little surprised because Eden (which is excellent) is just down the road. So we dropped in on the way back and...fucking hell the place needs bombing flat and starting again.
Weirdest place in Cornwall for eats and cheap tat has to be the infamous Trago Mills. This place is like something out of The Prisoner. Imagine an outlet centre archictecturally designed by a complete madman, which has huge voluminous spaces inside filled with every piece of plasticky cheap tat you can imagine, plus a lot of very useful stuff, plus a record department that still sells records (ie vinyl and not the cool stuff either).
Has a reasonably good eaterie, severe security guards and a weird set of statues and a nature walk! Oh and a helipad
Bonkers place but has to be seen / experienced to be believed. -
opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agokalel wrote:
It's the law...
Murbal wrote:
kalel wrote:
I went to uni in Exeter, so I'm a big Devon fan.
Did you have one of those window stickers in the vein of Carlsberg?
Bumper sticker yeah
Another vote for St Ives. -
Murbs 25,151 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAs peej says, St Ives is lovely. I never really appreciated it until me 'n' MrsMurbs first stayed in the town rather than passing through - it's now one of our favourite places in the world. -
I was in newquay last weekend, good laugh..but far too many pikeys. Made me feel old too.
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pjmaybe 70,666 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMurbal wrote:
As peej says, St Ives is lovely. I never really appreciated it until me 'n' MrsMurbs first stayed in the town rather than passing through - it's now one of our favourite places in the world.
Ditto. Can be a pain in the arse to visit if you park in that car park at the top of the hill, but it's the perfect little seaside town. Lots of cool (and not so cool) arty types down there, and of course The Tate. Fucking excellent chippie (probably the best in Cornwall) just outside the town on the road back out again too.
Newquay's alright. Love the Blue Reef place but beats me why people head there as a preference. -
pjmaybe wrote:
Murbal wrote:
Newquay's alright. Love the Blue Reef place but beats me why people head there as a preference.
Leave them too it! Its actually alright out of season but during the summer its full of idiots. Loads more stunning places to visit and they're not populated by arse holes.
+1 for St. Ives. Across the bay is Hayle and Gwithian Towans. HUGE, flat beach, sand dunes for exploration, good surf and schools to learn a bit. Also very nice cafe / hire shop right by the car park called Sunset Cafe or something. Take a wander further down the lane and you'll come to The Jam Pot. Crackin cream teas etc. and the wife'll think your a star
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