Saunton Sands, North Devon

[butterfly child]

The South Devon Coast is damn fine - and practically deserted.

I find a lot of it very boring

 

[Donna Ferentes]

What were you expecting, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeeste...

 

[Geri]

I find a lot of it very boring

Me too, there are not enough waves crashing on rocks. It's all a bit too calm and genteel.

 

[butterfly child]

What were you expecting, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeeste...

South Devon is a bit more "traditional" seaside, imo, than North Devon.

 

[gentlegreen]

South Devon is a bit more "traditional" seaside, imo, than North Devon.

I drove back from Cornwall the other week via Torbay to get a handle on why I prefer Cornwall. Paignton was quite enough - can't even see the sea for bathing huts - streets of amusement arcades and tat shops ... Torquay was the same but more tastefully done ....

I loved the beaches as a kid though - from Exmouth to Budleigh Salterton.... maybe I could try it for a short spring break.....

North Devon out of season sounds appealing though .... maybe I should invest in a wetsuit ....

 

[Idaho]

Me too, there are not enough waves crashing on rocks. It's all a bit too calm and genteel.

What are you talking about you nutters?

Prawle Point:

Start Point and Hallsands:

You all seem to be talking about Torbay. That's not really South Devon. You need to get with the whole South Hams area and coast.

 

[Geri]

Those places do look nice but ideally I want a combination of beach (i.e. sand, that you can walk on) + huge waves. What I love about Newquay and other places on the Atlantic coast is that you can lie in bed and listen to the waves coming in and going out. It's so relaxing.

 

[Idaho]

Bigbury Bay and Burgh Island:

Noss Mayo along the coast:

 

[Idaho]

Going to be staying here in a few weeks so I'll let you know if it does the sandy beach and waves at night thing:

http://www.hopeandanchor.co.uk/

 

[Geri]

Ooh, I've been to Bigbury on Sea and Burgh Island - a very long time ago, mind, but I seem to remember liking it a lot. There's a really fabulous looking Art Deco hotel on the island:

http://www.burghisland.com/

Check out those prices!

Makes the Saunton Sands Hotel look like a Travelodge!

 

[butterfly child]

Ooh, I've been to Bigbury on Sea and Burgh Island - a very long time ago, mind, but I seem to remember liking it a lot. There's a really fabulous looking Art Deco hotel on the island:

http://www.burghisland.com/

Check out those prices!

Makes the Saunton Sands Hotel look like a Travelodge!

Fuck me

Both Deco hotels

 

[gentlegreen]

I may have to visit the area at some point - if only to work out what this is :-

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.23...F-8&rlz=1B2DVFC_enGB214GB215&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl

 

[djbombscare]

I may have to visit the area at some point - if only to work out what this is :-

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=50.23...F-8&rlz=1B2DVFC_enGB214GB215&um=1&sa=N&tab=wl

looks like the remanants of a outdoor pig farm to me matey. They use the cake slices for the pigs to live in normally and get served ( shagged) and then they move em up to the Farrowing paddocks. which are the square-ish ones at the bottom of the pic.

Normally what heppens is the farmers comes along and ploughs the field up after the pigs ahve been there. They use the pigs to put nitrate back into the soil and chrun it up after a feild has been intensivelly farmed.

It might be something else entirely different BUT thats a virtually identical layout to the pig farm I worked on one summer. ( I think its called a Dial system or something)

 

[Idaho]

Top info Mr Scare

 

[Lost Zoot]

She lives in Southmead but she put her address down as Henleaze because she didn't want her kid to go to Southmead school. (not that this is in anyway relevant to the thread! )

I.

Hahahah, North Devon i live there. Its alright. Southmead school!!!!!! she was very right not to sendf her child there!

Groks go home etc

 

[SpookyFrank]

A little bit of heaven

And to think I've never heard of it

Anywhere else just as gorgeous, Deb'n urbs?

Was looking at the price of staying at the Saunton Sands Hotel - a bit pricey

Woolacombe is better than saunton, FACT.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I would refer the honourable gentleman to Ilfracombe. God's own shithole would the only possible description.

i rest my case

My mum lives there. And I think its nice, being a proper victorian seaside town and looking like such a place should. Damien Hirst has a new restaurant there and seems determined to turn the place into a yuppie hell-hole nobody can actually afford to go to, but give me the greasy spoons, amusements, ramshackle old houses and fight-ridden pubs over that smarmy cunt's idea of 'regeneration' any day.

 

[butterfly child]

My mum lives there. And I think its nice, being a proper victorian seaside town and looking like such a place should. Damien Hirst has a new restaurant there and seems determined to turn the place into a yuppie hell-hole nobody can actually afford to go to, but give me the greasy spoons, amusements, ramshackle old houses and fight-ridden pubs over that smarmy cunt's idea of 'regeneration' any day.

You were doing so well until that bit...

<sigh>

 

[SpookyFrank]

You were doing so well until that bit...

<sigh>

Well if there's a friendly pub in ilfracombe I've never found it

 

[butterfly child]

Well if there's a friendly pub in ilfracombe I've never found it

Nah.. you got me wrong.

I like the greasy spoons, amusements, ramshackle old houses - just not "fightridden pubs"

I love seaside towns, in all their faded glory.

 

[Elpenor]

Am considering a few nights in a caravan in north Devon in September. The week after the schools have gone back.

Possibly Woolacombe or Croyde. Will look to do a day trip to Lundy on one of those days. Other than that just walk along the coast path and chill on the beach. Anything else I should consider in the immediate area?

I’ve not been to north Devon since 1989, despite living in the south of the county for four years. It feels too far to go for a day trip! But I have fond memories of running up the sand dunes at Saunton sands (I think!) which seemed to go one forever

 

[SpookyFrank]

Am considering a few nights in a caravan in north Devon in September. The week after the schools have gone back.

Possibly Woolacombe or Croyde. Will look to do a day trip to Lundy on one of those days. Other than that just walk along the coast path and chill on the beach. Anything else I should consider in the immediate area?

I’ve not been to north Devon since 1989, despite living in the south of the county for four years. It feels too far to go for a day trip! But I have fond memories of running up the sand dunes at Saunton sands (I think!) which seemed to go one forever

Woolacombe has better a beach and better coast path than Croyde. Mortehoe - Bull point - Lee - Ilfracombe is one of the best bits of the SW coast path IMO.

 

[Sweet FA]

I love Saunton and have camped there a lot over the last 5 or 10 years. I prefer it to Croyde.

Get a couple of surf lessons and muck about in the water; excellent fun.

 

[Elpenor]

Woolacombe has better a beach and better coast path than Croyde. Mortehoe - Bull point - Lee - Ilfracombe is one of the best bits of the SW coast path IMO.

That sounds like it might be a nice walk to do each day… then the bus back to digs

 

[Elpenor]

I love Saunton and have camped there a lot over the last 5 or 10 years. I prefer it to Croyde.

Get a couple of surf lessons and muck about in the water; excellent fun.

Zero chance of me doing any surfing!

 

[Sweet FA]

Zero chance of me doing any surfing!

Me neither. It's more just splashing about tbh.

 

[Dystopiary]

Am considering a few nights in a caravan in north Devon in September. The week after the schools have gone back.

Possibly Woolacombe or Croyde. Will look to do a day trip to Lundy on one of those days. Other than that just walk along the coast path and chill on the beach. Anything else I should consider in the immediate area?

I’ve not been to north Devon since 1989, despite living in the south of the county for four years. It feels too far to go for a day trip! But I have fond memories of running up the sand dunes at Saunton sands (I think!) which seemed to go one forever

You'll be able to see Wales.

 

[Elpenor]

You'll be able to see Wales.

I’ll try not to let it ruin my holiday

 

[ID47]

More like sunsets over Lundy Island rather than seeing Wales. Beautiful sunsets in the area.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Lynton & Barnstaple Railway? They've got a mile or two of track on the old narrow gauge line at Woody Bay.

There's also the Discovery Music record shop in Barnstaple. The proprietor can usually be seen at Exeter St Davids on a Sunday or at gigs across the south west. Memorable character.