Another wake up with full sunshine. Does it rain sometime in England ?
Our plan for the day was to ride the steam train from Kingwear to Paighton.
First, we had to take the ferry to Kingwear. It is a nice short ride of 5-10 minutes.
Kingwear is situated just in front of Darthmouth but it is much quiet. We walk around before the train arrived.
The Dartmouth Steam Railway is a 10.8 Km ride between Kingwear and Paighton since 1864.
It is mostly used bu tourists in summer time now. On the train, we met a train attendant who worked for the company for 49 years now. Not quite in a hurry to retire!
It is a 25 minutes train ride that give us the opportunity to see beautiful landscapes.
Paighton is a beach city. The beach is long and nice but the rest of the city is very kitsch and without interest for us. Game arcades, cheap souvenir shops, fast food restaurants... Everything I don't like. Hopefully, we found a nice cafe call "Our Katy" taht serve nice homemade scones with Devon cream and jam. It comforted me.
We came back in de mid-afternoon and fond an art craft market is installed in the park near the tourist informations. We peek a look before our afternoon break.
For dinner tonight we didn't had reservation. It is a problem here in Dartmouth, especially on a saturday night. So we walked a little bit further to find a pub. It wasn't fine cuisine, but at least we can sit and have a view at the marina.
Even travelling by ferry and train, we managed to do 15,042 steps.
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