点评:No big complaints about the beach.. on a good day it’s probably, at its best mediocre, but we were there on the hottest day of the year on a bank holiday at the beginning of half term.. we got what we expected! Overpriced cafe, no ‘facilities’ and Absolutely Packed!!
It is the parking that really P***ed me off!! Basically there is very limited parking spaces / car parks available and very narrow roads in and out of town. Fine, it’s Devon, I get that. … But! the ONE & ONLY stretch by the beach where (about 30!) cars can comfortably park and not block the two way traffic is.. guess what.. double yellow lines. Once the Very Very limited car park spaces are full people, in desperation, start parking on the double yellows and then who should appear but the traffic warden. We were told by a local that the warden observes and then moves from the top of the hill to the bottom in 2h cycles. The local was right! I parked on a dbl yellow next to only four other cars.. 2 hours later I got back to a ticket and another 28 cars all ticketed and none of us 29 cars actually blocking the road.. I would suggest that this is a huge money making scheme for the local council. There is absolutely no reason this section of road should be double yellow lines but for the fact they know tourists will park anyway because there is no where else to go! it is the only bit of road in about a 2 mile radius that is actually wide enough for cars to comfortably pass each-other (with the parking available on one one side…). Clearly this council does not like tourists, which I totally get! we are bloody annoying .. blocking your roads, tramping over your countryside and paying extortionate amounts for parking, chips and ice-cream.
I wouldn’t bother going back there. The UK is full of wonders, this is not one of the exceptional ones and certainly not worth stressing over a parking spot for.
翻译:对海滩没什么大抱怨……天气好的时候,它最多也就是一般般,但我们去的那天是学校假期开始的银行假日,也是一年中最热的一天……结果不出所料!咖啡馆价格过高,设施简陋,而且人山人海!!
真正让我恼火的是停车!!基本上,停车位/停车场非常有限,进出城镇的道路也很窄。好吧,这里是德文郡,我能理解……但是!海滩边唯一一段(大约30辆!)可以舒适停放而不阻碍双向交通的路段……你猜怎么着……是双黄线。一旦非常非常有限的停车位满了,绝望的人们就开始把车停在双黄线上,然后谁会不小心出现呢?交通管理员出现了。我们听当地人说,管理员会观察情况,然后每隔两小时从山顶骑车到山脚。当地人说得没错!我把车停在双黄线上,旁边只有四辆车。两个小时后,我回来发现收到了一张罚单,另外还有28辆车也被罚了,而我们这29辆车根本没有堵塞道路。我认为这是当地议会的一项巨大敛财计划。这段路根本没有理由划成双黄线,除非他们知道游客反正也没地方可停,才会这么做!方圆两英里内,只有这一段路足够宽,可以让车辆轻松错车(而且停车位只在一侧……)。显然,这个议会不喜欢游客,我完全理解!我们这些游客真是太烦人了……堵塞道路,践踏乡村,还要为停车、薯条和冰淇淋支付高昂的费用。
我以后不会再去那里了。英国有很多美景,但这里绝对算不上其中之一,更不值得为了停车位而费心。