We went to Budleigh Salterton in the weekend. We had some lunch and then spent some on the pebbled beach in the shadow of red cliffs, for a change enjoying the lies in the previous night’s weather report. Budleigh us only a few miles east of Exmouth, but there’s no train going there, so we had to wait for someone with a car to take us there. There used to be a train though, until in the 1960s Beeching Axe closed dozens of small branch lines in the UK. And although yes, I do understand why there might be sound economic reasons behind the closure, it’s quite sad isn’t it? It would be so nice if one could still go from practically anywhere to anywhere else by train.