South West Trains are offering special fares, go almost anywhere for £15 return. So I decided to go as far as I was allowed, in this case Honiton in Devon, famous for its lace and as far as I knew, nothing much else.
Setting off very early from Olympia, and buying my ticket at Clapham Junction, where I had to change, I had a very pleasant journey down there, though beautiful countryside which was still largely green.
The weather, however, was not very kind; it rained practically all day, and my brolly was very much in use.
Honiton is not very big but it is interesting, with lots of little individual shops and few if any of the large national ones. In a word, it has character.
I had morning tea, soon after I arrived, at the church in the High Street, where they were serving teas and cakes and selling books. The homemade jam sponge cake was delicious, and the tea was just what I needed after the journey.
The church was not particularly interesting, but just across the way from it was Honiton Museum, which mainly concentrated on the lace-making industry for which Honiton was famous.
