A new career in retirement

After long service in the Royal Navy, this barge now has a new lease of life

 as a floating cafe on the River Torridge, in Bideford.

The attractive, riverside town of Bideford, on the Atlantic coast of North Devon, is 60 miles due north of Plymouth. 

It is a beautiful drive up and over the western edge of Dartmoor and through the rolling farm land of Mid Devon.

Street Furniture

Street Lamps alongside the river in Bideford, North Devon.

The river frontage of Bideford

Bideford is a small, attractive, market town (pop 17,000) near the mouth of the River Torridge.

It is 56 miles due north from Plymouth, on the beautiful North Devon coast.

The journey across the South West Peninsula, from south to north, 

takes you around the southern fringe of Dartmoor 

and through the beautiful, "empty" area of Mid Devon.