PLYMOUTH
We stopped at Plymouth in May 2023 for no other reason than that it was a convenient place to spend the night during a rail strike. It turned out to be a good place to access otherwise difficult parts of the South West Coast Path, including Kingsand and Cawsand.
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We checked out the steps where the pilgrims purportedly set sail, ate at some rather good restaurants, and walked around the Royal Citadel, a historic fortress that’s defended the coastline since the 1600s. You can feel the flow of history while walking the narrow cobbled lanes of the Barbican, a circuit of ancient streets with 200 listed buildings of Tudor and Jacobean architecture. Lots of little shops and bakeries, which of course we sampled.
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An important Royal Naval port, Plymouth is home to England’s biggest seaports and naval bases; you can often see frighteningly massive military ships out at sea.
