Is Dartmouth worth a visit ?
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2023
- Join us, Carol & Ken as we leave our little red Nissan NV200 campervan at home and take a trip to Devon, staying in a couple of AirBnBs. In this episode, we take a drive into Dartmouth via the Higher Ferry and enjoy exploring the castle.
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This episode was filmed 11th April 2022.
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This is my home town and you've done it proud. Lovely little video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Loved this nice laid back video and the relaxing music,,looks a very interesting place full of histoy,happy travels Greetings from Stockholm Sweden.
Greetings Noah👍
Lovely yacht going out in the closing moments. I really am torn as to what to do going forward with my life. So because I have no idea what to do, I will do nothing until September. That will also give me time to heal. Love to you both. I hope you are getting better Ken.
Good idea to take time out until you get inspired by something. Ken is much better now thank you. 🙏
@@LifeistooshortCK I am so pleased to hear that. May you both have a wonderful Christmas and may the New Year bring us all good health and prosperity.
Once again, lovely day out. An escape from the winter/pre-Christmas blues.
Hi my name is paul i have followed you for over a year i live now in france and love your vids i used to live in east cornwall and moved to france some years ago i also have a motorhome and very much enjoyed watching your trips to europe i hope you both have a great christmas enjoy your new campervan next year regards paul
Merry Christmas Marion. Lots of love from us ❤️❤️❤️
I love Dartmouth. Will be staying in a flat overlooking the river in March. Stayed in same flat last year and it was wonderful, great views from every room. Take care you two, Love Linda x
We always said we would love to own a property with views over a river to watch all the boats coming and going. Lovely 🤗
Love Dartmouth first went there as a kid in the scouts for Dartmouth town week where we marched down the Main Street to the bandstand and did a concert on the bandstand with the 234th Northwinds scout band from Bristol, played there all week very fond memories.
I bet that trip was fun. I loved the Scouts when I was one 👍
Beautiful scenes again and the music was sublime. We are loving this trip 😊
Thanks guys 🙂
Liked this one as my brother lives there and has just moved now across the way to Kingswear opposite Dartmouth just up from the smaller ferry you saw . He has a boat just up from the ferry you crossed on. Couldn’t see him on the footage 😂
The place has a lovely feel …
It is a lovely area. We have been to Kingswear in the past. Great place for your brother to keep his boat 🙂👍
I'm loving these short vlogs. Thanks.
Thanks for watching 🙂
I was wondering if you'd go along Dartymouth because if you don't go down to the upper ferry it's a long way round by the top roads to get across by bridge at Totnes. Mind if you go that way with your new Camper when you get it there's a lovely day out round Robin where you use Boat, Steam Train and Omnibus plus the passenger ferry. Starting at Totnes and coming down the estuary to Dartmouth, cross on the little passengers ferry and go to Paignton on the steam train and back to Totnes on the Bus. You can take time between each leg for sightseeing and lunch. Plus it's a real treat for transport fanatics. Nice to see the Fort too , haven't been along there for years, not since the granddaughters were little. Tidy little two master in the closing clips too.
That sounds like a very nice day out. One for the new van maybe 😁👍
Love Dartmouth ,so much to see, the castle, the steam railway and so on. We stay at the club site just out of the town and catch a bus in
Really enjoying the daily ‘snippet’ videos, don’t have to wait so long for your news!
Never been to Dartmouth but i certainly will looks great, thanks for sharing 😊
Hope you enjoy it!
Absolutely beautiful place x
Just catching up after the festivities. I hope you both had a lovely Christmas. Carol did well with those stairs, really lovely video. Did you notice if there was much provision for wild camping in the area? Em
Sadly not. We were not really looking as we knew where we were sleeping. We would have had we been there in Little Red. 👍
Lovely film.
Happy Christmas x
Beautiful and relaxing. Thanks.
😁 Great vid Carol & Ken 😁
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas🎄👍
What a lovely video - gorgeous views and beautiful music accompanying it, thank you.
Thanks Vanessa 🙂
Thanks for another interesting vlog. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you both🎉
Thank you. You too 🎄🎅🏻
Loving the daily short videos ,thank you guys .
Glad you like them. Thanks for watching 🙂👍
Dartmouth seems like a nice place. I really love seeing little snippets of different parts of England. Love to come over for a holiday one day.
Dartmouth is well worth a visit. Hope you get the chance to see it one day 🙂
The smaller castle on the other side of the river is called Kingswear & it's a holiday home you can rent from the Landmark trust. We've had some lovely holidays there in the past. It's particularly suitable if you have some means of getting on the water, like kayaks or a RIB.
Sounds like a great place to spend a holiday and time on the water 🙂👍
I live here it’s lovely
Another great episode. Thank you Carol and Ken. Some fantastic buildings & beautiful scenery. Best wishes Dave & Dawn ❤
Thanks guys. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍
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I really enjoyed this Q&A. Love your story. Looking forward to more of your travels insights and wunderlust.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Thank you ever so much for a lovely video. Enjoy your trip xx
Our pleasure. Thanks for watching 🙂
I'm really enjoying these videos, you are so good at putting them together.
Cheers Euan 🙂👍
Enjoying your videos on South Devon, your video brought back some memories on Dartmouth. I remember last time we were there sitting on a bench in Dartmouth opposite Kingswear railway station when the whole of the ferry crossing was taken up with a funeral procession complete with coffin, I couldn’t help but think that was one hell of a send off. Your air b and b looks great.
Wow, not heard of a funeral procession like that before. Dartmouth would be a lovely final resting place.
Enjoying your vlog with my morning Cuppa Tea 🍵 😋 🎉
Thanks for watching 🙂
Interesting visit to Dartmouth👍 I have fond memories of I think it was Thursdays marching around the Naval college grounds accompanied by the Royal Marines band playing Hearts of Oak.
Wow, great memories 🙂
Lovely place 😊
Nice to watch your Air B&B adventure. Not been to Dartmouth so must head that way. Lovely video guys. Thank you. 🙏 🚐🎄
Glad you enjoyed it. Dartmouth is well worth a visit 🙂👍
Stayed on the C&CC site at Dartmouth earlier this year. It was ideal with a bus stop at the gate now I've got me bus pass 👍🐸
Another lovely video! Merry Christmas from Wyoming!
Happy holidays! 🎄🎅🏻
Another enjoyable vlog on English history. Interesting to see the naval academy on the hill. And the castles. Merry Christmas to you both. Thank you. Take care 🙏🩵 💙🎅🧑🎄🎄 🩷
Merry Christmas to you too 🎄🎅🏻
Dartmouth looks like a nice little place. It must be really nice in the summer. Lovely stained glass windows in the church. Grand views from the tower.
One of our favourite towns Larry. 👍
One of our favourite towns Larry. 👍
Hi, lovely video thanks for sharing xx
Thanks for watching 🙂
I know and love all these sites/areas. The parking less so 🤣. Looking forward to see where you head to next.
We know what you mean 😄
A very Happy Christmas to you and your family. Regards AJ
And to you AJ 🎄🎅🏻
I do like when Carol sets out on her own and gives us a tour. Nothing personal towards ken. It’s just another point of view looking at your adventure. Best of Christmas wishes to you both. Mary
So do I it gives variety to the videos. 😁👍
😂 Dartmouth looks lovely, looking forward to visiting one day. I don't fancy the smaller ferry, not in a campervan or car!!!!😄🚐🌴
It’s good watching them operate but they are small 😁👍
Hello you two, what a beautiful town and perfect view over the bay/sea. I am going to Google the difference of 'a cup of tea'. (here you go again) and 'having tea'. What's behind the a cup and a meal thing. When I was young there was a nice place in my hometown for ' tea'. It was a feast of all sort of cakes and cream and bonbons, very posh.
Where we are in the Southeast of England, a cup of tea is something you can have any time of day and sometimes accompanied by a biscuit or cake. Tea is a light meal or snack taken in the late afternoon / early evening. The meaning may be different in other parts of the country, just to confuse you 😂
@@LifeistooshortCK Thanks, I was confused because so much Yummie is going on in that Little Red that looks like a real diner. France is a dangerous place for me too drinking just a cup of tea.
Hari Om
It's a stunning place... YAM xx
Thank you both have a merry Christmas and a happy new year “ Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda “ 👍👍👍🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦🦢🥃
Merry Christmas to you too 🎄🎅🏻
I've just watched your Dartmouth video and note your comments about the towers from which chains were strung across the river to prevent " enemy " ships from entering the harbour.
If that's what you were told, then someone is lying.
The real reason for such towers and chains - which can be found in many, if not most, southern, western and northern European ports - was to stop pirates entering the harbour to raid the town and take slaves. You can see them in seaports as far apart as Looe in Cornwall to Positano in Italy - where they are called " Saracen Towers ". "Saracen" being the old name for North Africans.
These pirates were called Corsairs and they were BLACK, AFRICAN, MUSLIMS from North Africa - Tripolitania ( Libya) , Tunisia, Morocco and Algiers.
They raided sea-ports and coastal settlements and stopped and raided ships at sea. They raided all across southern , western and northern Europe, up as far as the Scandinavian countries and Iceland - girls with blond hair and blue eyes were highly prized by Arabs as sex-slaves. They raided what is now Eire and sometimes took the entire population of a town as slaves.
They stopped ships mid-Atlantic to seize crew and passengers as slaves. They raided the entire Eastern seaboard of the Americas as far down as Mexico.
These raids took place between the 16th and early 19th centuries. Official estimates are that 2.5 million WHITE people were seized and sold in North African slave markets.
At one point, the British Government was so concerned about the effects on coastal populations - the Corsairs raided up to 100 miles inland - and trade they sent a man called George Washington as an Ambassador to the North African nations to plead with them to stop their raids. The rulers refused, telling him that their religion permits them to take non-believers as slaves.
George Washington, then a British civil servant, became the first President of the United States.
The slave-taking and raids were only stopped by a joint British, American and Dutch task force which initially intercepted the pirates at sea - freeing captives and galley slaves ( as all the Corsair's ships used galley-slaves as well as sails ) and executing the pirates. The task force led by U.S. Marines - this was the early 19th century - attacked the Corsair's home ports, sinking their ships and landing to engage the armies of those countries. Only when the task force looked like it would totally annihilate the defenders did the rulers of the four slave-taking nations sue for peace and agree to stop what they were doing.
The battle hymn of the United States Marine Corps commemorates this first major action of theirs - it starts " From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli .... ".
Algiers was the first of the four nations to break the treaty they had signed and started raiding southern France again. This lead to the occupation of Algiers by French Forces which lasted till the early 1960s.
For the same reason, Spanish troops occupied Morocco and Italian forces occupied Tunisia.
Of course, you will never be told any of this by the marxists who control the historical narrative these days because, as we all know, only Britain and America ever took people as slaves and, of course, black people and muslims can do no wrong - only white people do bad things.
Would these Pirates not count as enemy ships then 🤔. Very interesting facts though.
I live in Dartmouth and as a local I say that it's beautiful but kinda boring. The coast walks are always beautiful, but the town has nothing for locals, it's all art galleries and overpriced bakeries, it's extremely expensive too.
Something else that’s gone cashless……
I wonder when people are going to realise what a cashless society is going to mean….😢
Yes. Use it or lose it.