Saturday 1 June 2008. Today we are in Babbacombe, just a short distance along the Devon coast from Torquay. Tonight we are going to see a couple of mates who are part of a Sixties Reveal show at the local theatre.
Babbacombe lies just north of Torquay on the opposite side of a small peninsula and has sandstone cliffs overlooking a small beach that you can get to on a furnicular railway.
There's an excellent and large green. There was however the added enjoyment of the local ...er... character. In her sixties, she was dressed in a bikini top and long skirt and was carrying a deck chair all over the place, putting it down and then picking it up again talking angrily to herself all the while... She never actually sat on the deck chair, but then there was no need really because with her antics she had soon emptied all the nearby benches...
The theatre itself sits at one end of the green and there are several large hotels strung along the road between the theatre and the furnicular railway.
We had a walk along the cliff tops to the theatre and, having got our bearings and having noted that despite the lack of crowds along the seafront, there was also quite a lack of car parking spaces along the seafront road. We decided to go back to the hotel, get changed and ready for the evening then head back early to Babbacombe, to secure a parking spot and have a meal before the show.
Once we were back in Babbacombe, we had a meal in the Babbacombe Inn and the food was excellent. Halfway through our meal most of the cast of the show turned up and we were spotted and had a chat with Tony Harte, then the lead singer with The Honeycombes. In the next article we'll have a look at the show itself.
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