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Would Drake have beaten the Armada out of Plymouth if he’d been lounging around the tea rooms and coffee shops they have in town today?
Plymouth may have been virtually flattened in the Blitz, but it’s still got its Elizabethan tea rooms and the coffee isn’t bad either! I’d only ever been to Plymouth before for work events; the kind of visits where you see … Continue reading
Posted in Plymouth, The South - From Kent to Cornwall, UK visits
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