The coast

Well I finally got to see some rugged English coast down at Devon. Along with a couple of friends we hired a 12 bed 'beach chalet' for 5 days on the north coast of Devon. Unfortunately I could only get down for the last two days, Thursday and Friday, but it was worth the 5 hour drive. Since I was down there I decided I might as well make the most of it and stay an extra night, so hired a cute little cabin with Amy and Sarah. Here are the photos:







Woody Bay
These are the photos for Dad. Woody Bay was an historic train station that some old men enthusiasts were restoring. So far they had rebuilt a small section of the original track and ran short train rides along it. Once every month or so they get the steam train out, the next ones on the 26th if you can make it over by then Dad!





Lee Abbey
The beach chalet was in the grounds of an old Abbey that was now a retreat. As you'll see from the photos someone had hideously painted the building a creamy yellow colour. Seeing the original stonework made want to call in the sandblasters to clean the paint off. The first photo is the side of the building the third is the view from the front.






Lynton
Lynton was the closest town, a small village like place with small streets coffee shops, cemetaries and pet shop with a rather odd looking minature greyhound.


Horse Riding
Given that the weather was so nice we went for a horseride in the country-side. Despite some random outburst of machismo by a couple of the male horses it was really nice, as you'll see from the pics we had great weather:








The cabin
This was the cabin we stayed at for the last night, very cute. Although my room was a little too pink which had the bizarre effect of me feeling the need to read Marie Claire cover to cover then spend far too long doing my hair.




Bath
On the Saturday we drove back via Bath, after navigating our way through the random street layout we had some lunch and wandered through town. Quite a nice little place, although I'm sure there's much more to see than we saw, or at least many baths to be taken.