Renovation project - fried breakfast and beautiful Plymouth - Friday 19th October 2012
First things first, a hearty
breakfast in the hotel, it is the full English fry up, which 4 months ago we
would’ve enjoyed, now we just feel sluggish and full of greasy fat (this is on
top of last night’s curry) I opt for a choc au pain and it is disgusting, it’s
like eating a lump of lard. I have a feeling we are going to miss our new
healthy eating habits and the not so healthy but fabulous fresh baked
croissants.
Once fed and showered we set off
for the nearest shop selling sat nav’s. We find a Halfords, pick out the sat
nav we bought to take to France (which as you may remember is now in the
possession of some scruffy scroat in France).
We go to pay and don’t have the
card, so back to the car, we now have the card and can’t remember the number,
so john gets his phone out to find the battery is dead, so back to the car
again for a battery charger and we stand with the lad from the shop waiting for
our phone to charge so we can retrieve the pin number, yesterdays technological
breakdown is spilling over into today.
It is only 11am and we have arranged
to be at Friends in Staffordshire this evening so we take the opportunity to
explore Plymouth, this is a beautiful town on the South coast of Devon (it does
have its bad points but these can be easily missed) we park the car at Plymouth
Hoe and walk around the coast.
Plymouth brings back some lovely
memories of when my daughter lived in the area and the fact that I had planned
to move here a few years ago to open my tea shop or have a little B&B. This
was before I met John, its funny how things turn out.
The morning was fantastic and the
sun was shining, lots of photos were taken and we highly recommend anyone
heading to England to pay a visit.
The Cenotaph at the Hoe is a very
sobering place, when you see how many names or written on there.
We set off early afternoon and are
making good time so we decide to stop for a late lunch, we see signs for Taunton
and pull off the motorway, it was not what we expected at all, and would
recommend anyone considering a visit changes their mind or just has a drive
through so you can say you have been. We end up buying sandwiches from
Sainsbury (this was the best option we found, so you can now understand why we
don’t recommend it as a visitor hotspot!)
Just got back from England and I still love the Full English Breakfast :) Also we find Brittany Ferries quite reasonable vs the 8-hour drive to Calais, as long as you get a reclining seat or a cabin on a longer crossing. We went via Caen/Portsmouth about 6 hours on the boat, Cherbourg/Poole is only three hours but only in summertime, and our favourite return is Portsmouth/ St Malo.
ReplyDeleteWe also found we could eat really cheaply in some of the better pubs, dinner in Portsmouth was G&T for June, 2 beers for me and full on Sunday roasts - total £19.50!
Cheers
David
Sad to say but the English breakfasts are starting to taste better :)
ReplyDeleteHi David, sorry for my late reply, hope you had a good trip to the UK, I bet it seems so long ago now! yes eating out in the UK is definitely better value, we were lucky staying in Manchester there are unlimited places to eat, if you ever go try to visit Rusholmes curry mile, highly recommended :)
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