Recovering from a hangover, your Cottages In South Devon correspondent is sitting in the Princess Theatre Torquay listening to Hawaiian guitar music and waiting to see the fabulous Count Arthur Strong
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Cottages In South Devon – Bantham to South Milton
Beaches are one of the main reasons people choose to rent Cottages In South Devon and there are dozens of different beaches to choose from on the coastline from Plymouth to Torquay. Blackpool Sands might have the café, Ayrmer Cove might have the adders and Bigbury might have the giant sea tractor thing but Bantham is […]
Frog rescue!
There are loads of frogs in our neighbourhood, all making their way to our neighbour’s garden where they’re mating. Some are getting squashed on the roads so Cottages In South Devon have been out rescuing them 🙂 Your browser does not support the video tag
Totnes Good Food Sunday
While I live in Totnes, I don’t want to turn Cottages In South Devon into a Totnes appreciation society but it’s hard to avoid talking about some of the good things that go on here. We’ve always been lucky in the food shops we have in town – Seeds Bakery, Riverford, Sacks, Greenlife and the […]
Riverford Field Kitchen
One of the perks of running a site like Cottages In South Devon is that you are absolutely required to go and eat great food in wonderful places. And it’s certainly never a hardship to eat at Riverford Field Kitchen. Giles Coren called it the lunch of his life and it has the kind of […]
Totnes: Twinned With Narnia
If you rented a cottage in Totnes a few years ago you might have noticed a brilliant sign that someone had taped over the “Welcome To Totnes” sign on the A385, that thin strip of reality that stops Totnes floating off into a parallel universe and joins this unique town to the rest of the […]
Blackpool Sands February
For our first trip out for Cottages In South Devon we headed to Blackpool Sands, which is just outside Dartmouth. From Totnes it’s less than half an hour in the car but we know a little short cut that gets you to the beach quicker – instead of going all the way to Dartmouth you […]