I spent the day in a pretty seaside town renowned for its traditional charm, which I feel is kept alive because locals tend to settle here through the generations. “You can just go and have a swim whenever you want,” one said, adding that the carnival week in Dawlish is "amazing".
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Well, other than the Carnival event they must have visited a different Dawlish to the crapper I live in. 20 years ago it was a beautiful and well maintained and cherished Town but over the last 2 decades the councils have run it into the ground whilst continually increasing the rates, in my opinion