From steep cobbled streets in Clovelly to windswept coastal walks in the Valley of Rocks, our UK travel guides cover the villages, harbours, and hidden corners we’ve explored on our own road trip — starting in North Devon and expanding to Wales, Cornwall, and beyond as we cover more ground.
Each guide includes practical tips on parking, timing your visit, and what to bring, drawn straight from our own experience on the road.
UK Travel Guides
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Hafan y Môr Holiday Park: An Honest, Mixed Review
Hafan y Môr is one of Haven’s biggest holiday parks, tucked between Pwllheli and Criccieth on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, with Eryri (Snowdonia) as a backdrop and its own stretch of beach. It’s built around a huge range of activities aimed squarely at families, and on paper it…
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Newquay, Cornwall: Beaches, Town Centre, and Why We Preferred Perranporth
Newquay is pretty much the first name that comes to mind when people think of Cornwall. They call it Surf City UK, and walking through the streets, it’s easy to see why: surf shops on every corner, wetsuits drying over balconies, and beaches that run right up against the town…
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Caernarfon Castle: An Unplanned Wales Highlight
Caernarfon wasn’t originally on our list. We ended up here almost by accident, during a small loop around the area on a day when the weather had turned bad enough that a few of our planned stops just weren’t going to be worth it. Caernarfon Castle became the fallback plan…
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Germany to Calais Route: Our Go-To Drive From Bavaria
Every time we head for the UK or Ireland, this is the Germany to Calais route we fall back on. We’re based in Bavaria, somewhere between Frankfurt and Würzburg, and after doing this drive enough times, we’ve settled on a version that works — reliable stops, no unnecessary detours, and…
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Tre’r Ceiri Hillfort & Garn Fôr: A Llŷn Peninsula Walk
Tucked into the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, the ridge of Yr Eifl hides one of the best-preserved Iron Age sites in Britain — the Tre’r Ceiri Hillfort — along with a string of neighbouring peaks including Garn Fôr. We covered this walk in one of our shorts, and it’s…
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Land’s End, Cornwall: What to Expect
Land’s End marks the most westerly point of mainland England, and it’s one of those places almost everyone doing a Cornwall trip ends up adding to the list. We stopped here as part of our own trip, and while it’s not a full-day destination, it’s a genuinely pleasant few hours…
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Minack Theatre & Minack Garden: A Cornwall Highlight
The Minack Theatre near Porthcurno, Cornwall, is one of those places that photographs well but somehow still exceeds expectations in person. We came for the theatre and the garden, and left having spent a genuinely relaxed few hours there — enough that we’d happily recommend it to anyone doing a…
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Black Rock Sands: The Beach You Can Drive Onto in Wales
Most beaches, you park somewhere nearby and haul your gear across the sand. Black Rock Sands, near Morfa Bychan on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales, does things differently: you drive your car straight onto the beach and park right next to the water. That’s the whole appeal, and it’s…
