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child £7.50/4, four daily mid-April to October) to the warships at Plymouth's naval base,
and fishing trips (per three-hour cruise £25); have your catch turned into a meal at their
funky, sustainable fish-focused
Boathouse Cafe
MAP
5am-5pm Sun-Thu, 8am-9pm Fri & Sat)
for £15 extra.
Commercial Wharf; mains £6-18;
Mount Batten Ferry
MAP
BOAT TRIP
GOOGLE MAP
( 01752-408590;
www.mountbattenferry.com
; Barbican Pontoon; adult/child return £3/2)
A little yellow ferry
shuttling from the Barbican Pontoon across to the Mount Batten Peninsula (10 minutes,
half-hourly).
Mount Batten Centre
( 01752-404567;
www.mount-batten-centre.com
; 70 Lawrence Rd, Mount Batten Peninsula)
Two-hour taster
sessions include those in sailing dinghies (£20) and sit-on-top kayaks (£18). Two-day
courses include kayaking (£90), sailing (£165), windsurfing (£140) and power-boating
(£225).
SAILING, KAYAKING
ROYAL WILLIAM YARD
In the 1840s, this cluster of waterfront warehouses supplied stores for countless Royal Navy vessels. Today it's
home to sleek apartments, a relaxed pub, a chic wine lounge (
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) and a burgeoning cluster of eateries; the
best being River Cottage Canteen (
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) and the Royal William Bakery (
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). A simple
exhibition
(
9am-4pm Mon-Thurs, to noon Fri) outlines the yard's history; roaming past the former slaughter-
house, bakery, brewery and cooperage underlines just how big the supplies operation was. The yard is 2 miles
west of the city centre, hop on bus 34 (8 minutes, one-to-two hourly) or, better still, catch the hourly
ferry
(
07771 544394;
www.royalwilliamyardharbour.co.uk
;
adult/child single £3/1.50; 10.30am-4pm Apr-Sep) that
runs from the Barbican Pontoon. A 10-minute walk north of the yard, the
Cremyll Ferry
( 0774 6199508;
www.cremyll-ferry.co.uk
;
Admirals Hard; adult/child return £2.60/1.30; half-hourly) chugs across the Tamar
to Cornwall, and the historic house and fine walks of the
Mount Edgcumbe
(
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) estate.
Sleeping
Sea Breezes
( 01752-667205;
www.plymouth-bedandbreakfast.co.uk
; 28 Grand Pde; s/d/f £40/70/95)
At this deeply com-
fortable guesthouse, fresh decor ranges from subtle gingham to groovy swirls. The bath-
B&B
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