Touring Devon/Cornwall on a motorbike

[Stepmama]

Am doing a coastal route of north Devon/Cornwall/South Devon (in that order) and wondered if anyone had any suggestions for places to stay, stop for lunch or just to visit en route?

[SteveD]

Here's one to start you off: Kynance Cove (near The Lizard):

http://www.chycor2.co.uk/westcountryviewscornw all/coastal/kynance/kynance.htm

Unless you feel you really MUST go to Land's End, don't. It's a horrible grockle trap.

[Whickerman]

what's a grockle?

[campbellking]

Grockle is a tourist.
My all time favourite place in Cornwall is the 'Lost Gardens of Helligan'. Didn't particularly find much to like at the Eden Project. Also like St Just in Roseland.

[The Builder]

................just wanted to put SteveD straight :o)...............tourists are "Grockles" in Devon, but, in Cornwall, they're "Emmetts"......................(little ants - in case you wondered)

..always worth having a look at Clovelly, and the cliffs around Hartland by the way...................

[yogasun]

I live in Devon

Agree with The Builder and campbell..
Lost Gardens a must!

[SteveD]

Oops, sorry, The Builder. I knew the word "emmet" but I thought "grockle" and "grockle-fodder shop" (shop selling tat for tourists) would do for Kernow, too (I lived near Blackpool and worked there for about 11 years so I know about grockles).

I've just had another thought for Stepmama - Tintagel (or at least the pasty (I know: tiddy oggy) shop at the top of the path leading down to the castle):

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St Just in Roseland is great, too but we fought our way for ages through the undergrowth to get photos from the other side of the water:

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[Bewlay Bros]

Have you ever watched any Doc Martin TV shows? If so it is filmed at Port Isaac in Cornwell.

It is a most picturesque and visitworthy village.

[SteveD]

I don't know why my second link doesn't work with a click.

It does work if you copy the link without the [IMG] bits though. Copy this:


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then go to Internet Explorer, do Ctrl-O Ctrl-V enter and it should work.

[SteveD]

Forget the last bit. It works from that link.

[spudqueen]

Bigbury-on-Sea in South Devon is a great place with it's own 'island', well it's an island at high tide and a causeway at low tide. You can walk to the island (Burgh Island) at low tide but at high tide you can ride the sea tractor.
http://www.bigburyonsea.co.uk/
Just three miles away is the small town of Modbury which has been in the press recently for being the first town in the country to become plastic bag free. It's a lovely little town.
http://www.modbury.net/
Also is South Devon is Dartington Cider Press with shops and the only Cranks restaurant still open
http://www.dartington.org/cider-press-centre
The Barbican in Plymouth is the oldest surviving part of Plymouth and is worth exploring. You'll find the Mayflower Steps, from where the Pilgrim Fathers boarded the Mayflower to take them to their new life in America. There is also an Elizabethan garden and the Plymouth Gin Distillery which you can take a guided tour round. You can also take boat trips round the Naval Dock yards.
http://www.devon-online.com/towns/plymouth/bar bican.htm
If you're into real ales and real pubs then the Boringdon Arms in Turnchapel (very close to Plymouth) is well worth a visit. A bit tricky to find but worth it. They also do accommodation if you like staying in pubs.
http://www.bori.co.uk/

[funkymoped]

do you want a pillion ???
id love to do that sort of thing, but with family commitments....
hey, id even share the cost of fuel... shall we call it a tenner ???
:-)

[vickster1]

Bigbury-on-sea is a must sea its south devon and there is this place called Burgh Island which you must go to as when the sea is out you can walk there but when the tyde is high you can get a tractor sort of ride back. I have done a lot of travel all over the world and this to me is the best place in the world. Also there is an art decor hotel there and it is a must to book lunch and enjoy.

[markja]

lynton & lynmouth at the top of exmoor : start in lynmouth,get the funicular railway thing up the hill, have a cream tea at the top and then walk back down to the bottom. brilliant.
mid devon at bickleigh near tiverton on the exeter road. there is the fishermans cott (pub/ restraunt ) fantastic, right on the river, smashing veiw, great food , the bridge is the one sang about in "bridge over troubled water" and bickleigh mill is there also.
beer , nr seaton is a lovely little place, i haven't been there for ages so don't know if it's changed.
polperro, near looe in cornwall is a lovely little old fishing village.some lovely real ales there as well. it may get a little busy in summer but i went in late spring and it was fine.
exeter has a lovely quayside. you can rent canoes and cycles if you wish.if you paddle upstream to the weir there is a nice pub to get refreshed in before paddling back.
pony trekking on dartmoor is another, relaxing and great view.
try a cycle ride along the tarka trail cycle path. (bikes can be hired ) http://www.staynorthdevon.co.uk/site.htm you may have to copy and paste.
there is so much you could do, hope you'll have time. lucky sods, my missus doesn't like long bike trips, so i'll have to go on my own.
as you may have guessed i come from devon originally.

[markja]

forgot to say , the tarka trail is on an old railway so NO HILLS!!!! thats the way to cycle.

[markja]

with the link i gave you need to click " what to do" and scroll down to cycling. bl00dy computors don't do what you tell 'em.

[Stepmama]

Thank you all for that ... need to start planning the route now but some fantastic ideas :o)

[niki2002]

St michaels mount when you are in Cornwall is lovely.
http://www.stmichaelsmount.co.uk/

If you can, I recommend becoming a National Trust member before you go. Costs about �32 for a year but allows you to go into lots of places you would normally pay for free, or at a reduced cost.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-index.h tm

[CromwellsBulldog]

Emmet, grockle!!!?? Oh dear you funny sounding small minded peasant trash. Its the tourism that keeps you fed and clothed, as you neither have industry or commerse to pay the rent on your tide cottages or council slum dwellings.
Also in the winter months the welfare payments you blow on trainers and cheap cider is earnt by the tourists you so despise.
Id rather go to a civilised destination for my holidays anyhow, (which is anywhere but the hethan extremities in an otherwise civilised kingdom) Somewhere, where the sounds of sheep being abused and the cries of hairlipped inbred local children dont disturb my peace.
Ooooh Ahhhrrrr. bye xx