Our honeymoon and first holiday together.
The pictures in this gallery were taken before I knew how to take surface pictures well, before I knew how to make image galleries, and before I knew how to write HTML well enough. This gallery is migrated from its original location on Geocities. The format does not really fit well, but what can you expect?
At the time of our wedding, both of us were students and neither of us could drive so for our honeymoon, we had to find somewhere relatively cheap with many activities at close range. After some guidance from the best man, we decided upon the South Devon town of Paignton, with its "famous" beach and quaint harbour (almost poetic innit!!!).
Tried to relax in Paignton.
Went on the NASA simulator and on a pedal car/cycle thing, as well as a trip down the pier.
Lunch was in an expensive cafe (not good, just expensive).
Shopping for souvenirs helped us avoid the rain. Dinner was in a restaurant full of old people.
Went on a trip on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway and River Cruise.
Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway.
Waiting in the wind.
The Dart river cruise was on the Cardiff Castle - an appropriate name, perhaps.
Tudor houses in Dartmouth.
River Dart.
House on the Dart.
Marina.
Sailing boat.
Gardens.
Lunch was at the Station Restaurant, followed by a trip to the world's smallest steam
museum, with only one exhibit.
In the evening we visited the beach for some bodyboarding..
Becky likes the sand, while Tarquin doesn't so the trip to the beach was done at high tide
when the sea reaches the defences for most of the beach, so no sand is visible.
The day begins with a walk up the hill (urgh!) to the zoo. [Don't recognise the lizard; maybe some kind of day gecko.]
Baboon.
Monkey.
Tapir.
Giraffe.
The lion only showed us its rear end all day!.
Lizard. [Bearded dragon.]
Zebra.
Rhino.
Man are you u-u-uugly!.
Elephant.
Ostrich.
Flamingos.
Monkey - on the left :P
Fat [beaded] lizard.
Bird.
Buffalo.
Aldabra tortoise.The crocodiles, cheetah, porcupine and red panda all failed to put in an appearance. After wondering why a zoo with no hippo or dolphin would have so many souvenirs for both, we had lunch in the Safeway cafe.
Now extremely tired, we had dinner in the guesthouse before collapsing into bed.
"Don't wanna get up!"
Having watched the 12 in, the 12 out, the 12A in and 12A out all leave the bus station together, we set off for Kent's Cavern. 45 mins of underground archaeology.
Kent's Cavern main route.
Archaeological finds - including the fake dropping.
Calcite layers cross-section.
Stall and misplaced ferns.
stalagmites.
Troglodyte.
While trying to eat lunch at the Kent's Cavern cafe, Cavog the caveman tried to stab Becci.
So Tarquin tried to stab him.To finish off, we wasted some time at the beach before catching the train for the 3 hour journey home.
Our honeymoon began as a 3 hour train journey from Cardiff with a 1 hour wait in Bristol. Virgin Rail showed that their timekeeping skills were improving as they only had to apologise twice for being late! After arriving tired at our guesthouse, we ate dinner there then turned in for the night ...
Later we visited the Quaywest Waterpark. 1.5 hours of fun.
Slides.