This family holiday to North Devon has captured the essence of seaside resorts in the fifties. The family stays at the Devonia Hotel in Mortehoe, a hamlet for smugglers and wreckers and originally a manor estate. Many a ship was wrecked on the rocky coastline with its combes, coves and caves making it a smugglers' paradise. Nearby Woolacombe offers a long sandy beach and is today popular with surfers. The privately owned Clovelly is packed full of summer visitors.