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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Twitchen House Holiday Park: Our Honest Review
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…
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Mortehoe, North Devon – A Small Village with Big Coastal Views
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…
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Woolacombe Beach: North Devon’s Best Beach
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…
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VALLEY OF ROCKS: North Devon’s Wild, Windswept Coastal Wonder
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…
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CLOVELLY: North Devon’s Timeless Fishing Village Frozen in the 1800s
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…
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Ilfracombe Harbour: What to See in a Small North Devon Town
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…
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An Afternoon in Bath: Roman History, Georgian Grandeur, and a Lot of Tour Buses
An Afternoon in BATH: Roman History, Georgian Grandeur, and a Lot of Tour Buses Bath had been on our list for a while, but between everything else on the route, we only ended up with a single afternoon to actually explore it — so this is really a Bath afternoon…
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A Day in Salisbury: Cathedral Spires and a Market Square That’s Been Trading Since 1227
A Day in SALISBURY: Cathedral Spires and a Market Square That’s Been Trading Since 1227 If Canterbury gave us our first taste of English cathedral cities, Salisbury might be the one that stuck with us the longest. Between Britain’s tallest spire and a market square that’s been buzzing with stalls…
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Portsmouth: Stepping Aboard HMS Warrior and Into England’s Naval Capital
PORTSMOUTH: Stepping Aboard HMS Warrior and Into England’s Naval Capital HMS Warrior Portsmouth had been on our route for a while, but it wasn’t until we climbed aboard the Royal Navy’s first iron-hulled battleship that the city really clicked for us. One short clip on our YouTube channel barely scratches…