Exeter; Monday, 30 May, 2016

Having checked out of the hotel I wandered through town to the Cathedral. Outside on the green it was clear that it was a Bank Holiday Weekend as there was a large troop of Morris Dancers performing, and trying to rope the general public into taking part.

Carefully avoiding the pagan festivities outside, I headed inside the Cathedral to have a look around. The cathedral is pretty impressive from the outside and inside it’s no different with its stunning roof and light interior.

The biggest attraction inside, though, appeared to be the attempt to fund raise by building a Lego replica of the Cathedral. 300,000 bricks at £1 per brick is a good way of encouraging the public to give. Given the small elements of the cathedral that were built I hoped that it had only been going for a very short period of time.

By the time I’d looked round the cathedral it was lunchtime so I stopped for a quick bite to eat and a look at what to do to fill up my last couple of hours in the city, given that all of the museums were closed for the Bank Holiday. I decided to go for the cheap cruise option across the Exe Estuary.

The cheap tour option is to use the public ferry that runs between Starcross station and Exmouth hourly during the summer months. I headed over to the bus station and picked up the bus out to Starcross and changed there onto the ferry.

With the light breeze it was very pleasant to be sailing across the bottom of the Exe on a lovely sunny day and there was quite a lot to see as this end of the river is very busy with moored boats and people generally messing about on the river.

Over in Exmouth I had a bit of a wander round before heading over to the bus stop and picking up the bus back into Exeter.

Back in Exeter I only had about an hour left to kill so I headed for a coffee shop for a quick shot of caffeine to keep me going for the near 4-hour train ride home.

Caffeinated up I headed back to the hotel, picked up my luggage and made my way down the hill to Exeter St David’s station to pick up the train back towards London and home.