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Flying 12 DHC goes on its holidays Part 5

Day 5: Beer to Buckland tout-Saints

The cars outside Hotel Bucklnd tout-Saints

Day 5 saw us wave our friends goodbye at Beer and set off over Devon lanes on the next part of our Holiday. Fellow Committee Members Bob and Val Richardson were planning to arrive in Sidmouth for a couple of days break, so we arranged by telephone to meet them for lunch. As Sidmouth was not so far for us we arrived there quite early and found a car parking space just behind the RNLI station quite easily. The 12 usually attracts a crowd wherever it is parked, and this was no exception. The sun had come out, at last, so we sat outside a cafe on the front with a coffee while we waited for Bob and Val to arrive.

There are pedestrianised lanes behind Sidmouth seafront so a short walk found us all in the "Ship" Inn. This proved to have good real ale and the obligitary crab sandwiches on Crusty bread, so all four of us we were reluctant to leave.

However, we were booked into the next hotel in our tour that evening at the Hotel Buckland Tout-Saints, about 2 miles from Kingsbridge, down extremely narrow Devon lanes, the type that have grass growing in the middle! There is a vague and very tenuous link with this hotel in that it is owned by the same company that owns Mallory Court Hotel near Leamington, that was the former home of Sir John Black.

Just to continue the theme of meeting other Standard owners whilst on their holiday, we called Paul Newsome who was staying with his family in nearby Salcombe. We invited Paul for Dinner at the Hotel which he  accepted like a flash and turned up an hour later in his TR4. He was able to fill us in with a report from the Standard Register Rally the previous weekend, which we were unable to attend , because we were on this tour. If anyone would like to send me a report and photos of this event, I wold be pleased to publish them.

We posed the cars outside the Hotel and enjoyed a very special Dinner - the food is excellent!

Day 5 - 80 miles Beer to Buckland tout Saints

Phil Homer.

Reporting from the Trelaske Hotel, Looe, Devon

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