Brixham Orange Queen
Sunday morning we drove through Torquay, right past several caravan sites and past houses called ‘Montana’ in Paignton. We arrived in Brixham were we had reservation at one of the Brixham Hotels. We were excited, because we were not too far from Riviera country. We didn’t bother to unpack, we wanted to take a walk to the port which wasn’t too far from our hotel.
We watched fresh catches being unloaded from the boats and then even before the fish barely stopped wriggling, they were thrown on top of the charcoal grill which my friend and I were sitting in front of at the counter of one of the many shacks strewn along the shore. After delighting in eating the freshest grilled fish we’ve ever had, we walked up a winding road called Station Hill. We were surrounded on both sides by window boxes which really let us know we were in a very Provencal town.
William of Orange landed here in Brixham on his way to claim the throne. There’s even a placard pointing out where William of Orange fell off his boat and broke his nose. My friend, who is a scholar, begged to differ, saying it’s just a tourist gig, and it’s not true that the Dutchman fell and broke his nose. Despite if the story is true or not, I really liked just how underdeveloped Brixham is. It didn’t feel like a tourist trap or a tourist destination. We later, found a place to have lunch before we checked out ‘Art in Action,’ a place where we could, if we wanted to chisel away at a stone piece. We passed up on the offer.
That evening we watched The Bohemians play at the Aquaculture Festival. A leaflet which was distributed boasts that The Bohemians are the only Queen tribute band that really resembles the actual members of the four Queen members. We didn’t know what the Queen members looked like, so we can’t tell you if that is true, but we did enjoy them all the same. We called it a early evening and went back to our hotel room to get some much needed rest before the next days drive.
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