Delightful Dartmoor

Day 1

We depart the local area with a stop on route for lunch, arrive at the 4* Moorland Hotel with time to settle in before dinner.

Day 2

Today we visit the tranquil haven of Buckfast Abbey. The Abbey is a working monastery where the monks live self-sufficiently creating goods for sale, producing their own electricity, engaging in various forms of pastoral work and welcoming visitors from around the world. This afternoon we take a ride on the South Devon Steam Railway along the valley of the river Dart through some of Devons most beautiful countryside.

Day 3

After a leisurely breakfast we enjoy a scenic tour of Dartmoor National Park, keep your eyes peeled for the local wildlife including the iconic Dartmoor ponies, highland cattle and rare birds like skylarks.

Day 4

Today we visit Britains Ocean City: Plymouth. The coach will drop you off near the Barbican & Sutton Harbour. The Barbican is a vibrant place of cobbled streets, narrow lanes and more than 200 Listed Buildings, many of them Tudor and Jacobean, offer a wide range of cosmopolitan boutique shops, galleries, pubs, cafes and restaurants set amidst picturesque scenery. Southside Street is home to the world-famous Plymouth Gin Distillery, the building dating from the early 1400s and a former monastery inhabited by Black Friar Monks. As well as antique stores, galleries, boutique shops and cafes. Sutton Harbour has lots to offer from the National Marine Aquarium, boat tours and the famous Mayflower Steps, from which the Pilgrim are believed to have left England aboard the Mayflower for a new life in America in 1620.

Day 5

We depart the hotel, and with a stop on route, arrive home mid-afternoon.

D=Dinner, B=Breakfast