3 days in Bude with older parents

This three-day plan keeps the travelling between stops short where it can. On day one, lunch at The Lime Kiln Cafe is 1.8 miles from Watermouth Castle, and Hele Cornmill is just 0.5 miles further on. Day two is closer still: the Museum of British Surfing, Quay Cafe and Braunton and District Museum sit within a mile of one another. All three lunch stops hold a 5/5 food hygiene rating, so the midday sit-down is one less thing to wonder about.

Day three asks more of the driver. The Cornwall at War Museum is 37.9 miles from the previous stop, so it's worth an unhurried start. After that, St. Kew Inn and RAF Davidstow Moor Memorial Museum are each a 9.3-mile hop, and the museum welcomes dogs. For a base, Birch Farmhouse sleeps 6 and is 1.8 miles from Crackington Haven beach, rated Excellent for bathing water by the Environment Agency. Arriving by train? Okehampton is the nearest station to Bude.