To Buckfast Abbey to Torquay and back!

Posted on July 21st, 2007 at 8:31pm

Matt and I went on a day trip today. He wanted to take me to 'an Abbey near Exeter' and I should bring my camera.

We got there and I thought 'WOW':

(it's a shame the people got in the way )

I've never been to Buckfast Abbey before...I haven't actually been in ANY religious building before, so this was all totally new to me!

Matt had told me that you weren't allowed to take any photographs using flash, so when we went around and I took photos, I was careful to stop the flash on my camera from working. I only messed up twice, which isn't too bad...

I was taking pictures of anything that interested me and just as I finished taking a photo of the last thing of interest, a lady came up to me and told me that I wasn't supposed to take photos but she hadn't seen me take that photo...
(Apparently, you're not allowed to take photos of stuff in museums and places of worship. BORING.)

After we exited the Abbey, we had a look around the gardens; there was a 'Poisonous Section'^{^}, a 'Medicinal Section', a 'Cuisine Section', a Rose Garden^{^} and some other sections.

We went into the gift shop and I bought a Buckfast Abbey keyring^{^} and Matt suggested I also buy a Buckfast Abbey pen and calculator set^{^}.

After we'd finished up at the Abbey, we still had loads of time available, so went for a random drive. We had decided to go to Paignton but ended up getting sidetracked - I spotted a tourist sign saying that there was a CASTLE near by. Off we went in search of the castle...we missed the turning (but didn't realise until we were heading home) and couldn't see the castle anywhere.

We ended up in Torquay and had some lunch (McDonald's), then went to the Torquay version of the Hoe.

The Hoe is boring but WOW the Torquay version is so much more boring. The wannabe palm trees^{^} and the houses on the cliff^{^} were the most interesting stuff for me.

We ended up in this little shop near the car park called 'Animal Crackerz', which sold (surpisingly) animal things - stuffed toys, ornaments, puppets, pens, etc! Matt found a pug toy (which he bought for one of his pet pugs) and I spotted some Meerkat fluffies - mummy Meerkats and baby Meerkats. I couldn't resist the baby Meerkat!^{^} I want to go back when I have some more money, so I can buy the mummy one too.

After that, back to home we went.

I had an AWESOME day and I can't wait to do it again!

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8 Comments on "To Buckfast Abbey to Torquay and back!"...

kim commented on July 22nd, 2007 at 3:30pm. (Permalink?)

Sounds like you had an awesome time!
The abbey looks really stunning, too bad you weren't really aaloud to take pics... Not that you did

About HP... Urmm, I did cry at some bits, mostly when some of my fave characters died though.

Jijy commented on July 22nd, 2007 at 5:25pm. (Permalink?)

Ooh sounds like you had a great day!! The gardens sounds interesting, I'd love to go there. Aww sorry that you missed the castle! Maybe next time you'd be able to see it. Aww that baby Meerkat looks so cute hehe.

tom commented on July 22nd, 2007 at 5:40pm. (Permalink?)

Hey lirae thanks , yeh i took 56 that day haha linkage :: www.myspace.com/tom_lormor my Bday cake was great lol , omg i love old castles and churches , i went to whitby and went to draculas castle!

Eilidh commented on July 23rd, 2007 at 1:51pm. (Permalink?)

Wow, that is a rather impressive looking building, it would have been cool to get a look around the place and it does look brilliant
Haha, nice one missing the turning though - I guess that could be kind of annoying

Trixie commented on July 23rd, 2007 at 8:49pm. (Permalink?)

I've never heard of not being able to take photos inside of churches or museums, how odd. The picture at the top is beautiful and the people didn't mess it up
Love the meerkat!!! Sooo cute!

Kirsty commented on July 24th, 2007 at 1:52pm. (Permalink?)

Haha, sorry but I found it funny what the cathedral is called. It's also a drink that most chavs drink up here on street corners It looks amazing though.
I had the same problem once when I was in Edinburgh castle. I was taking photos of the Crown jewels, and some german guy got real mad at me because apparantly your not allowed too.. So I just hid my camera
I love random days out

Chelsea commented on July 24th, 2007 at 4:47pm. (Permalink?)

Erm, Wow you make Life seem So Intresting to Me! Lol, I've been there.. Took Loads of Pictures and I never got told off?? Lol How weird.. They don't have any Signs saying "Don't take Any Pictures!" Only a Sign saying don't use Flash. So they are weirdos!

Ariana commented on July 24th, 2007 at 8:55pm. (Permalink?)

WooW it looks like you had an amazing time!
Hey how did you make this website though.
Because I was intrested in making a website, but the thing is I dont know where to go to make a website like what you have.
Please get back to me. Thankss bye