Brixton is a harbour town, an active fishing port and home to a lot of pleasure craft. It is notable for having the pilgrims in the Mayflower stop by in 1620 to shelter on their way to America, also William of Orange dropped in, in 1688 on his way from Holland, to do battle the the Catholics in Ireland. The beginning of 'The Troubles'.
There is a full-sized replica of the Golden Hind in dock and a huge array of seafood restaurants. Some interesting old-time gaff-rigged topsail boats, also.
The road from Brixham to Dartmouth goes via cable-drawn ferries over the river Dart. Three pounds 50 for one-way. There are two castles at the entrance that were able to pull a chain across and prevent boats entering the harbour.
On another subject, we are allowed to pick our host's raspberries - very nice with yoghurt!
2 comments:
That looks like the kind of place that I would like to live. Is it an expensive area? Do you think that they could fit any more houses on that hill?
I think you would pay over 1 million $NZ for one of those houses, and no chance of a carpark!
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