To the gourmets, gastronomes, and gluttons out there, there is no other force in the world that can overpower their love for food. Aptly said by George Benard Shaw, “There is no sincerer love than the love of food”. You might love your family and friends, your children or pets, but you’re in a committed relationship with food. This trip to France can deepen that bond; a gastronomical experience, your taste buds will dance with delight and your cravings will be satisfied. That’s a promise!
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Go all the way to the northern tip of France, you’ll find a city along the...
Co Bikes, the UK’s first electric on-street bike hire scheme, has announced it is returning to Exeter this month with just under new 100 bikes rolling out to 14 stations located around the city.
From 23 August, in order to test the new bikes, updated app and bike station infrastructure, the company will reopen its County Hall and Civic Centre stations with a limited number of bikes. Then, on 10th September, to coincide with the post-holiday return to work and ‘Cycle September’, Co Bikes will hold an official launch event and reopen its stations at Exeter St David’s, Exeter Central...
Communities and individuals are being offered the opportunity to tidy up their neighbourhoods using litter-pickers, gloves and equipment supplied by the Tidy Exeter Group.
The City Council secured the funding from the government and supplied the group with money to buy the equipment and now the Tidy Group are offering to loan it to local groups to keep their neighbourhoods tidy.
Percy Prowse, Chair of the Tidy Exeter Group said: “We’ve got litter-pickers, gloves, bags and hi-vis jackets and we’d love to hear from any community groups that could put them to great use....
The Nun's Cross Path repair scheme has been given a £20,000 boost thanks to a generous contribution by the British Mountaineering Council's (BMC) Access and Conservation Trust.
Dartmoor National Park secured the funds through the BMC's Mend Our Mountains: Make One Million campaign to restore further sections of the Princetown-Burrator route which showcases the grandeur of Dartmoor's open moorland.
Nun's Cross Path is used by more than 30,000 walkers and 10,000 mountain bikes each year but over the years a combination of erosion damage and extreme weather – like the storms...
Life after retirement isn’t something that everyone thinks about. However, it would be a natural response for those who are closer to retirement to think about it more often. There are serious decisions that you’re going to have to make such as how much you’re going to live on every month as well as whether you want to stay where you are or start over somewhere new. It is crucial that you make these plans before retirement so you can work towards them and identify any potential issues that may arise along the way.
Having said that, this article is going to give you tips on how...
One of the area’s liveliest towns is set to show exactly why it’s such a great community in a special weekend next month.
Topsham, the estuary town on the edge of Exeter, is holding their first Join The Club! Long Weekend with events on September 5th, 7th and 8th.
Topsham – voted the best place to live in the south west by the Sunday Times earlier this year - has over 50 clubs, classes and societies running all year round and they will be opening their doors over the weekend at seventeen different venues ranging from yoga studios to churches and sports grounds and clubs to...
Stunning views of a beachside holiday park in Devon can now being glimpsed from highways and by-ways across Britain, thanks to an unusual publicity drive which has just got into gear.
Ladram Bay Holiday Park near Budleigh Salterton in East Devon has transformed a 43-foot long lorry into a mobile poster site for its glorious location.
Designed by the park's own graphics team, the picture shows Ladram Bay's cliff-top location above its private beach with an iconic sea stack just off-shore.
The breathtaking view, by local photographer Ben Kapur, will be visible across...
The summer’s not over just yet as the Picturehouse Outdoor cinema pitches up in the idyllic canal-side setting of the Double Locks pub for three nights of cinema under the stars.
From 30 Aug – 1 Sep Picturehouse outdoors returns for a weekend of singing, dancing and time travel, with the backdrop of some of Devon’s most beautiful countryside. Films will start around dusk, but arrive earlier to enjoy the evening sun with a refreshing beverage from the pub and something delicious from their kitchen.
Doors open at 7.00pm, with the film playing at around 8.00pm – as soon as it...
As an artist, David Ford still defies classification or comparison. Singer-songwriter doesn’t begin to cover it. He writes and performs with fluency across multiple genres, plays every instrument on the stage and even invents new ones to create truly unique recordings and performances. Every live show is different. Ford’s trademark one-man loop machine circus grows more complex and audacious every year, but then he is just as likely to show up with a six-piece band, a string quartet, jazz drummer or a choir and his most recent UK tour proved he can be equally compelling sat in an armchair...
THE MULTI-award-winning Swan in Devon has recently secured yet more awards for 2019 and its owners have also officially unveiled plans for a new restaurant they are set to open next month (September 2019).
The gastropub with rooms in Bampton has retained its four AA Gold Stars and two AA Rosettes for Culinary Excellence for the fifth year running following a recent visit by the organisation’s inspector.
Chef-patron Paul Berry, who co-owns The Swan with his wife and fellow award-winning chef Donna, said: “This couldn’t have come at a better time for us and we’re delighted....
