UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

This is the station at Buckfastleigh, where we caught the steam train on the South Devon Railway.  Notice the old cars outside to add to the 60s feel.
 

Mike here on the platform at Buckfastleigh, video camera in hand, ready to film the South Devon Railway train as it arrives at the station.  It's behind you!

A shot inside the old carriage showing the back of Belinda's head which is buried in the guide leaflet we picked up.  Mike went to the buffet car and came back with cold tea as he got chatting to the enthusiastic South Devon Railway steam buffs there!
 

The train stopped at signals quite frequently on its journey to Totnes, Mike found out from the enthusiastic buffs that a newly delivered diesel loco was coming up the other way and our train had to wait at a passing point on the single track line.

A view of the engine on arrival at Totnes.  We watched as the staff shunted it onto the front for the return journey, which we were doing later after visiting the town.  Belinda thought the train driver looked like David from 'Heartbeat'.  See our UK tourist links page for The South Devon Railway website.

Dodgy man just jumped out of the bushes!  Oh, it's OK, it's only Mike looking like a tourist.  This was on the path from Totnes station into town.
 

Belinda just can't leave her mobile alone, even on holiday!  We found a nice pub in Totnes for lunch as well as a large gift shop before moving on to visit Totnes castle.

At Totnes castle, and Mike looks out at the view.  Entrance cost the best part of a fiver and we have to say it wasn't the most exciting castle we've ever visited, poor value here then.
 

Leaving the castle by the narrow stone stairs we wondered why they built stairways so narrow in castles when all the soldiers would be dressed in cumbersome armour.
 

Slurp, suup, slop, yes, it's Mike eating an ice cream down on the quayside at Totnes where we next went to see about the River Dart cruises.  We were too late, but their website is on our tourist links page.

The next day, and after a fruitless search for Kitley Caves which are no longer in business, we went to Wembury and lunched in a lovely little beach café right on the beach.

We walked round the South West Coast Path from Wembury to Heybrook Bay, stopping frequently to admire the view and top up on sunscreen.  Here you can see a lovely view and Belinda's not bad either!
 

We found 'The Eddystone Inn' at Heybrook Bay and stopped for a well earned drink.  Mike last visited here in '72 on a family holiday and was pleased to see little had changed.

Back on the return walk to Wembury, we re-applied the sunscreen and re-traced our footsteps.  More Wembury on Devon page 2.

Earlier in the day we found the farm that Mike stayed in two years running in the seventies, now disused.