Holiday Cottages Devon Blog: Thinking of letting your holiday home?

Holiday Cottages Devon Blog: Thinking of letting your holiday home?

Salcombe's Most Desirable Views?

This has to be one of the best properties in Salcombe...all yours for a cool £1.75m!

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Battle of the Salcombe Jackets!

So it's the battle of Salcombe's 2 premier clothes outlets:

Quba vs Crew!

Round 1: Price
Quba: £375 (yes that's right £375)
Crew: £175

Winner by a country mile: Crew - in fact you can buy a white one a blue one and still have £25 left to spend in the KA!

Round 2 Robustness:
Quba: - Pretty heavy duty although the main zip has always been a problem and the pockets in my 3 year old one have started to come unsticthed
Crew: Brilliant, heavy duty zips with waterproof coverings and heavy duty stitching

Winner: Crew

Round 3 Waterproof abilities:

Quba: my 3 year old jacket is fairly waterproof in a quick shower but tends to soak up water in prolonged rain.
Crew: Excellent, you could chuck a bucket of water over me and I would stay dry!

Winner: Easily Crew

Round 4 Buying Experience::

Quba: Really good, lovely shop, great staff.
Crew: Lack of staff in shop, lack of stock in shop. Had to order on the web, no stock, phone help was useless. I had to ring around shops myself to locate the one I wanted.

Winner: Quba - EASILY!

Round 5 Coolest jacket?
Quba: A real sailing image, although the jacket has become synonymous with rich people over Summer 2007. Still, they look good and have a great range of colours.
Crew: This is the original Salcombe brand! They have been through something of a revamp lately, ditching the awful pastel coloured, starched collar rugby shirts and becoming more of a outdoors clothing company. A move for the better. These new GBR 07 jackets are superb!

Winner: A close call but is it possibly just Crew? I am sitting on the fence here.


So the OVERALL WINNER is undoubtedly Crew, although they could learn a thing or two about customer service! Come on Alastair sort it out.

Salcombe's own McCann Story!

Will the Madeline McCann mystery ever be solved? Did they do it? Who knows....

Salcombe had it's very pwn McCann style mystery back in 1975 when John Allen killed his wife and 2 kids supposedly to start a new life and move in with his lover Eunice Yabsley, the then owner of The Galley restaurant. No-one ever found the bodies but Allen was convicted of their murders 27 years later. Local folklore has it that he dumped their bodies at sea but it was never proved...

Land's End to Salcombe....on a bike!

Get your wallets out and sponsor this bike ride. It's for a good cause in St Lukes Hospice in Plymouth. Organised by Kevin Favis who tragicaaly lost his wife to cancer a few months ago, they aim to raise £10k on the 3 day ride from Land's End to Salcombe.

More Salcombe Property Madness...

Anyone fancy a 2 bed flat with views of Salcombe estuary? Better get saving then....

I could understand it if it was nice inside but it's a bog standard flat like a first time buyer may look for in a city.

And has anyone noticed that new town that has sprung up next to Salcombe Primary school? It's like a small version of Milton Keynes!! I wonder which councilor took a nice backhander to approve that planning permission???