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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Tintagel Castle: Our Honest Review
Tintagel Castle is one of Cornwall’s best-known attractions, run by English Heritage on the north coast between Padstow and Bude. It’s steeped in King Arthur legend, sits on a dramatic headland, and shows up on pretty much every “best of Cornwall” list. We went in August expecting a highlight of…
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Beddgelert, Wales – A Pretty Village, Honestly Reviewed
Beddgelert sits at the meeting point of two rivers in the heart of Snowdonia, and it’s easy to see why it’s often called one of the prettiest villages in Wales. Stone cottages, a river running right through the middle, mountains on every side — it photographs beautifully. The catch: everyone…
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Twitchen House Holiday Park: Our Honest Review
We mentioned Twitchen House Holiday Park in our Woolacombe Beach guide as the caravan park we keep coming back to, and we promised a proper review. Here it is. We’ve stayed here multiple times, always in late August or September, and it’s become our default base whenever we’re doing North…
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Mortehoe, North Devon – A Small Village with Big Coastal Views
Mortehoe isn’t a place you plan a whole day around. It’s small, quiet, and doesn’t try to be more than it is — a cluster of houses and a church perched on the cliffs above the Atlantic, just a couple of miles from Woolacombe. But that’s exactly why it’s worth…
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Woolacombe Beach: North Devon’s Best Beach
There are places you visit once and places you keep coming back to. Woolacombe Beach is the second kind for us. We’ve returned four times now, and every single time the plan is the same: pack the van, head for North Devon, and spend as many hours as possible on…
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VALLEY OF ROCKS: North Devon’s Wild, Windswept Coastal Wonder
Valley of Rocks North Devon had been on our radar for a while, mostly thanks to photos of the jagged rock formations and the wild goats that call this stretch of coastline home. What we didn’t expect was just how easy it would be to turn a quick photo stop…
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CLOVELLY: North Devon’s Timeless Fishing Village Frozen in the 1800s
Clovelly North Devon wasn’t originally the top of our must-see list, but one look at the postcards in a nearby café changed that fast. This tiny fishing village, tucked into a cliffside so steep that cars have never been allowed in, turned out to be one of the most atmospheric…
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Ilfracombe Harbour: What to See in a Small North Devon Town
Ilfracombe isn’t a place that ends up on most first-time UK itineraries, tucked away as it is on the North Devon coast rather than along the more obvious south coast route. For us, it turned into exactly the kind of stop we like best: no big single “must-see,” just a…
