Bardwell
And the population has increased - and continues to increase - to an alarming extent.
Sadly that seems to be the case. It was OK for a while, but if you had wanted to go in more recently it always looked as if you had to push through a load of drunks cluttering up the entrance. The appearance was offputting.
I always wonder why almost all of the taxi drivers in Dawlish are so rude to other road users, always barging through and never acknowledging you if you wait to let them through. Don't they know that other drivers can be customers too?
Who Cares?
You think that the Ferret was loud but what the hell was going on at the Swan on Saturday night? A deafening disco in their GARDEN in a residential area? Words fail me. Who knows where complaints should be directed? Licencing as per previous post? And who else wants to join the complaints queue?
Sounds interesting and ambitious, particularly given it's location but good luck to them -- I'll certainly be giving it a go.
You're never going to get seriously posh in Dawlish - there just isn't the customer base, particularly amongst the tourists. Most of the eateries are firmly targeted at the low budget tourists, and they're welcome to them. But Deli delicious is a real step in the right direction for locals (and tourists) as - to a lesser extent- is Bailey's/No.1 Cafe. I've enjoyed eating in both. The brewery bar ...
It does seem to make more disturbance than the Teignmouth one. And they often seem to clutter up the pavement. Perhaps they'll read your comments and learn - a trader can't succeed without winning customer's approval and local goodwill.
I think the second part of your query is answered in one of the information boards posted along the route of the railway - I think the one just above Coastguards. As I recall a local big-wig had a house on the cliff at that point, and objected to the idea of local riff-raff walking by and peering into his property. So, to accommodate him, the path was dropped to its current partly useless height. ...
I've had similar parking problems in Teignmouth so I sympathise to some extent; although I'm also very unhappy when cars (mostly local) block access to my driveway (not of course an issue in your case). Trouble is the local planning decisions, whereby more and more people are crammed into a tiny space; for a rural town many of us are living in greater population densities than inner London and ...
