Croyde, eh, Bonzo? It's a grand area and you could always take in a walk round Baggy Point or botanise on Braunton Burrows dune system, the best for wild flowers in Britain I reckon. Well, maybe not in late September!

Wistman's Wood is sheer magic. There's another ancient woodland on Dartmoor worth rambling to at Black Tor Copse.

Not going to help Nick much, but if anyone's around at the end of April/start of May the bluebell wood at Brownsham, between Hartland and Clovelly on the coast, is wonderful.