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Adverts and affiliate links appear on this page. If you use the link to buy the product you won’t pay any extra, you may even pay less, and I may get a commission. Further details of adverts and affiliate links can be found  here .  Day Out from Torquay On our return trip to Cornwall we decided to reminisce with a return trip to Paignton but, because of our love of Fawlty Towers, decided to stay in Torquay and visit the adjacent resort of Paignton.  We had a great day in Paignton and decided to return the following day to take a trip on the steam train. The day started off great and then got better.  We boarded an open top bus from Torquay to Paignton and I discovered that my pensioner bus pass also go me free travel on an open top bus 200 miles from home.  My wife is not a pensioner so she had to pay the £2 maximum fare - still a bargain. Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company The Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company claims that the Paignt...

Adverts and affiliate links appear on this page. If you use the link to buy the product you won’t pay any extra, you may even pay less, and I may get a commission. Further details of adverts and affiliate links can be found  here . For a great day out visit Stonehenge and Woodhenge Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments. Everyone should visit it at least once. I have visited twice in the last two years.  Photographs do not do it justice. You have to be there to appreciate the scale and the beauty of the stone and the setting. Stonehenge is a man made circle of huge stones built on the Salisbury Plain. Anything more than that is speculation. It is believed that it was started over 5,000 years ago and took about 1,000 years to build. How was it built?  Nobody knows. 5,000 years ago, how could people move such large stones over such a distance.  Why was it built?  Nobody knows. It is known that the sun always rises over the Heel Stone on...