Jan May

Exeter is one of those places that I've been to many times but have never really got to know very well.  A good hour an a half from home, it used to be the destination for major shopping trips, as it had all the major shops we didn't have in Cornwall.  Today I discovered another side to the city and was quite enchanted by it. Just off the main road driving into the city we went to explore the quay area.  What a gem it is!  Glorious in the sunshine and a sheltered waterside place in which to sit and watch the world go by. The river from halfway across the ferry crossing We crossed the river on quite possibly the smallest ferry I've ever come across.  We could easily have walked over the footbridge a very short distance away, but it seemed like much more fun to pay 30p (yes - 30p! What can you get for that nowadays?) to stand in a little boat and be ferried by a man pulling on a length of chain strung across the river.  Now this is my sort of place!...