good for a day but not for a week (Bideford in general)

Member Name: yorkshire-lass

Product:	Bideford in general
Date:	08/01/09 (27 review reads)
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Advantages: the pannier market, musuem is free, the old railway

Disadvantages: not enough to do for longer than a day

We managed to arrive in bideford by accident. We were going somewhere else but got lost so decided to look round bideford instead.

Parking was easy to find with the car park located net to the park. The car park was for both short and long stay.

Shortly after we arrived we encounted a short heavy rain shower so dived into the local ourist information to take cover. Here there is a massive selction of leaflets for the area.

When it stopped raining we moved on into the town to look in some shops. At the top of one of the hills (beware these hills can be quite steep) we found the pannier market. Inside the hall there were a variety of stalls. My favourite one been the book stall which had loads of books and the lady on the stall even knew what she had and where it was.

On the lower level of the pannier market was a row of different types of shops. Here we found a shop that sold lovely drinks such as apple juice and lemon fizz. Oppsite the pannier market was a very intresting antique shop thats worth a browse.

In the backstreets at the bottom of the hill we came across a pasty shop that did steak and stilton pastys (among other flavours). These were delicious and I would recommend them.

After shopping it was time for dinner. We decided on trying some chips to go with our sandwhiches. The chip shop we went in was opposite the river. We sat and ate these on the quay side while watching boats being repaired.

After dinner we walked over the old bridge to where the bideford railway station used to be. This is on the taka trail which is very popular with cyclists. Here we sat and had a cup of tea in one of the railway carridges.

Now that we were fed and watered we walked over to the park and had a look in the museum which is sited here. This museum is free and also has a cafe and art gallery in the entrance.

After looking round the museum we made our way back to our car drove back to where we were staying. Luckily we didnt get lost on the way back.

Summary: glad we got lost and arrived here instead