Anyone know north devon - ilfracombe area well?

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Just about to book a cottage near combe martin apparently near woolacombe / ilfracombe - which seems really nice. Its a long drive down there for us from the north-east so want to make sure the area is really nice - anyone know it well?

Also will we find nice pubs and restaurants to eat in with veggie food? We went to cornwall 2 years ago and loved it but the food was very fish-orientated, and not much variety on the veggie-front.

DD will only be 9 months by July so we dont need childrens activities as such just nice beaches, walks, gardens. Dh is going to have a go at surfing I think.

we are going on holiday to woolacombe in august for the 3rd year running. it's lovely. dp is vegi & doesn't moan about the food. it take's us 5 hours from london so you're in for a long trip!

aa routeplanner says 7 hours but it'll be more like 9-10 with a few stops - when we did cornwall, coming back was a nightmare and we said never again ....

I know Ilfracombe. Quite nice but hilly. Combe Martin I went to years ago as a child I think. Seem to remember a castle but I may be very wrong and getting ocnfused with another place. Maybe has a shingley beach?? Woolacombe defintitely has a good beach as does Croyde and Saunton Sands.

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cece is croyde far from ilfracombe? - am looking at map but hard to tell journey times

The traffic used to be very bad but can't remember times it took as was a child myself. I just remember sitting in traffic jams from Braunton to Croyde/Saunton every day to get to the beach. But that was child time not adult time iykwim!

Not sure about coming from Ilfracombe though. Sorry.

We go on holiday to Devon all the time - love it! Combe Martin beach is shingly, its a small place but really nice.

Woolacombe has a gorgeous beach, if the weather's nice you won't want to leave it, but I love Saunton Sands too.

Everywhere you go, you will find leaflets etc for stuff to do, there is one road (A39?) that runs around the coast. We stay a bit further inland, but go to Woolacombe, Barnstaple, Combe Martin, Ilfracombe, even as far as Minehead etc and its all easily done in a day.

I'm veggie and don't have much trouble finding nice food, although most of the pubs will offer Veggie lasagne and not much else but I'm a poor churchmouse who can't afford to eat out too much.

Have a fab hol :)

thanks mamag for your reply - is sounds from what you say that everywhere will be easily accessible from the cottage I have found .. although I dont want to live on veggie lasagne all week ... I will check some tourist websites to find restaurants, as we like our grub!