When her husband goes overseas to 'find himself', leaving his family's comfortable London lifestyle hanging in the balance, Chrissie uproots her teen daughters and loyal lodger to move to the West Country to help her mum and stepdad out on their failing vineyard.
Slow South Devon and Dartmoor Travel Guide - Holiday tips and insider advice featuring Plymouth highlights, local restaurants, pubs and accommodation, national parks and reserves. Also covered are Dartmouth, Torquay, Dartmoor National Park, South West Coast Path, beaches, cycling, itineraries, boat trips and steam train routes.
For the independent traveller to Devon wishing to visit the coast and the countryside and also experience what the area really has to offer, this book is a useful companion. Following an introduction to the area, the book is structured in the form of itineraries covering all the places of interest.
This best-selling series visits beautiful Dorset. 28 enchanting walks visit the coves and caves of the Jurassic Coast and lush river beaches and water meadows of the countryside. Combining stunning photography, engaging stories and history, detailed directions, route maps and downloadable guides.
The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.