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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 10/07/2026

Darn you Bob Wilson (Anchorman)!

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 01/07/2026

@skillagesteve.bsky.social is the 130th minute the new 100th minute?

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Step one: acquire ninth cabinet?

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 28/02/2026

I think this is just your payback for all the times you have to listen to them stress-eating the microphones. Not a job where you can have misophonia, I assume :)

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 28/02/2026

Where else would you find this quality of closed captioning? ;)

Screengrab from the UK Season of Jet lag The Game. Ben is browsing on his phone while saying “I’m just looking at pornography”. It makes comic sense in context, trust me.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 15/01/2026

“Over posting” + “cat pics” = impossible :)

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 12/01/2026

Is it just the way my childish brain works or does this travel advert need better kerning on the font?

TV advert for holidays in Turkiye with a slogan saying “a piece of art” but the spacing of letters makes the last word look a bit like “fart”. Highbrow, I know…

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 02/01/2026

Intriguingly cryptic! <Bates breath>

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 02/01/2026

No, no, it’s just that the kids these days don’t want physical clothing as a souvenir, they want his “E-shirt” in Fortnite or Roblox ;)

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 20/12/2025

I was just about to ask if you can ever remember a Starting player A -> Sub B -> Sub C -> Sub D chain before?

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 10/12/2025

I’ve never been prouder to be from this sceptred isle…

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 07/12/2025

Quiet over there! I’m trying to build the world’s tallest house of cards to impress an Irish stout company :)

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 03/11/2025

“I need your clothes, your boots, and your jaunty train driver’s hat…”

Stock photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger being shown the inside of a Chinese train driver’s compartment

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 16/10/2025

I still blame Judith for bringing on the end of the world in Not With A Bang :) youtu.be/lQ-J9aEw6YA

Screengrab from a YouTube clip of the long forgotten 1990s ITV sitcom Not With A Bang, where Judith Hann cameos as herself, accidentally knocking over some chemicals during a TV show which comedically turns everyone to dust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_with_a_Bang

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 12/10/2025

@quizzydan.bsky.social today’s impromptu version of Hide And Peake was a bit easier than Westward Ho! :)

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 12/10/2025

What better to do on a Sunday afternoon than watch Tom Scott and chums record a live episode of Lateral Podcast?

Tom Scott on stage recording the Lateral podcast.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 07/10/2025

Excellent news, thanks! Although I’m now imagining the two of you trying to narrate an entire UK road atlas, arguing over who gets to read the nice straight Roman roads and who has to describe the Snake Pass.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 07/10/2025

I normally prefer audiobooks, but given it’s all about maps, are there lots of images inside the normal version that I’d miss out on by listening to your dulcet tones?

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 13/09/2025

Too good a post for this time of night, when there’s nobody here but us chickens…

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 31/08/2025

How many 90s magazine cover CDs have you uncovered?

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 21/08/2025

Adam’s European tour arrives in Cologne, Germany, where there’s a small little videogame convention going on. I’m sure I can see the whole thing in half a day, right?

Photo of the floor plan for Gamescom, which occupies multiple halls of a large convention centre.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 21/08/2025

…it’s a really good job I’m on a strict budget here otherwise I would be spending a fortune in the gift shop!

Montage of 6 different Olympic torches from recent summer games. Sydney 2000 is white, Athens 2004 is brown & silver, Beijing 2008 is silver & red and has a traditional etched pattern, London 2012 is gold with a mesh design, Rio 2016 is white with dark ribbons looking like waves, and Tokyo 2020 is a blue gold colour.

An arrow is on display in the museum, alongside an information display reading

Olympic cauldron ignition arrow, Barcelona 1992

Arrow used to ignite the Olympic cauldron during the Games Opening Ceremony. The flaming arrow, fired from the centre of the stadium by archer Antonio REBOLLO (ESP), a Paralympic athlete, lit the cauldron as it flew over the top of it.

Photo of a crowded gift shop filled with Olympic merchandise

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 21/08/2025

As a sports nerd, it would be rude not to visit the Olympic Museum in Lausanne…

The Olympic flame burns in the centrepiece of a sculpture, while in the background is a podium with the Olympic motto Citius Altius Fortius Communiter inscribed on the wall

A sculpture in the garden of the Olympic museum of two judokas participating in a bout, with a sign reading International Judo Federation, Budapest 2017

Looking up at the gardens of the Olympic museum with various sculptures and floral displays themed around sport or the Olympic rings. Three flags are hanging down from flagpoles, but the lack of wind makes them unidentifiable.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 21/08/2025

(Out of thread note, seems like my posts didn’t upload yesterday. Stupid tech!) …exactly on time, the Swiss rail network delivers me to Lausanne for an evening’s Diamond League athletics.

Frontage of Lausanne train station, with an analog clock showing the time as just before 1:30pm, and a sign saying Lausanne Capitale Olympique accompanied by the Olympic rings.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 20/08/2025

My first time in the Swiss city of Winterthur, famed for being one of the locations in season 9 of YouTube show Jet Lag the Game. But no time to hide in the woods - it’s 10:30am and I need to be on the other side of the country in 3 hours, so I’ve got to go go go…

Winterthur rail station map showing the location of platforms, toilets, etc

View of what seems to be a small allotment for townsfolk to grow flowers or vegetables. In the foreground is a small garden shed next to some tall sunflowers and a pole flying a Swiss flag l. In the background are a large number of trees.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 19/08/2025

…although even an hour of sightseeing was a luxury compared to the couple of minutes I had in Austria’s capital at lunchtime while changing trains. If only there was an apposite musical reference I could make to remind me that Vienna Waits For Me…

Sign at the main entrance to Vienna train station, reading Wien Hauptbahnhof with an analog clock face showing a couple of minutes past 2 o clock.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 19/08/2025

Made it across the Polish border too late last night to do any sightseeing, so my planned half-day trip to Brno, Czechia had to be condensed into a 60 minute speed round…

The Church of St James in Brno Old Town. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._James_(Brno)

Petrov, aka the cathedral of St Peter and Paul in Brno old town.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_St._Peter_and_Paul,_Brno

Špilberk Castle, a large white building with a red roof, sitting on a hill overlooking Brno

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 19/08/2025

…where I noticed the artists on this 1990/ Tommy / Pinball Wizard-branded machine had taken a few liberties when choosing where to place the word “England” on a map 😬

Close up of the Pinball Wizard branded machine themed around the 1975 movie Tommy. It shows a map of the British Isles with labels for various major cities. However, the word England is written in large letters diagonally across the top of the map, overlapping both Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Wide angle shot of the entire pinball table, with various flashing lights and motifs from the film.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 19/08/2025

…but this nerd was happiest in the Pinball museum 🤓

A small van parked in a Krakow street, advertising Krakow Pinball Museum, Stradomska 15.

The entrance to the pinball museum, in a brick lined basement. On the right is the ticket kiosk, on the left is a coat rack, and at the back people are playing various pinball machines underneath a neon sign.

A large number of pinball machines and vintage coin op arcade machines lined up in the museum.

Five pinball machines lined up in the museum.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 19/08/2025

Spent Monday afternoon wandering around in Krakow. Lots of important historical and cultural sights, of course…

Panorama of Rynek Główny, Kraków’s town square, featuring the large Cloth Hall building.

A typical street in Old Krakow, featuring three storey buildings on either side of a cobbled street.

Part of Wawel Cathedral in Krakow - a tall set of spires with ornate gold plating on a couple of domes.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 18/08/2025

I can currently relate to that, with the added quirk of being in a country where I don’t speak the language, in an otherwise empty carriage, and where the app just sent a notification saying we’ve arrived at our destination when Google says we’re still 10 miles out :)

A Czech railway carriage booth for six people, but all the other seats are empty.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 18/08/2025

No, you got the wrong protein supplier. This is KF…D.

A protein supplies store in a shopping centre in Krakow. The store name is KFD, just one letter away from a certain chicken franchise.

Screengrab from an old Simpsons episode where Chief Wiggum answers the phone and says “no you got the wrong number, this is nine one (pause) two”

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 17/08/2025

Not sure if whoever built the hotel I stopped in last night is an Ian Wright fan?

Photo of a hotel sign labelled Arsenal Palace.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 16/08/2025

Definitely doesn’t seem the kind of weather for a flamethrower at the end of every race. Another reason not to be drawn in lane one!

The finish of the men’s 100 metres viewed from face in angle, with a flamethrower firing just as the athletes cross the line.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 16/08/2025

Well that was worth the trip already! Keely breaking the world lead in her first race of the season 🥳

Photo of the women’s 800 metre finish, with British athlete Keely Hodgkinson crossing the line and a scoreboard in the background showing she set the fastest time in the world this year by two seconds.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 16/08/2025

My clothes have barely dried from last week’s trip, but I’m on my travels again. This time (predictably) it’s to watch some Diamond League athletics in Poland.

Wide angle photo of the Śląski Stadium in Chorzow, Poland, looking down at the blue running track.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

…so I decided to end my trip the same way I started it in Weston Super Mare a week earlier - in an amusement arcade emptying a cup filled with 2ps into a coin pusher to see if I could win my fortune (spoiler: I did not).

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

One recurring thing I noticed this week was how many seaside towns effectively shut down by 6pm, which seemed self-defeating for tourism. Luckily, Weymouth, my final stop, seemed to understand this, and was still thriving well into the evening…

Panorama photo taken from Weymouth pier of the Sun setting over the beach, casting a reflection on the water. In silhouette you can make out dozens of people still swimming or paddle boating in the shallow water, while in the distance a funfair keeps people busy.

Sign saying Pleasure Pier on the archway above Weymouth pier.

An old fashioned Punch and Judy kiosk on Weymouth Beach. A small red and white striped booth just large enough for one person to stand inside, with blue shutters currently locked. Signs on the outside of the booth read Professor Mark Poulton proudly presents Weymouth’s Punch and Judy show. Next show August 2nd to 12th and 19th to 31st, 12 noon and 2.30pm. £2 per person, weather permitting.

Fairground rides including a helter skelter and ferris wheel are illuminated on the Weymouth promenade after nightfall, with lots of people still milling around the area.

(Note: One of the only photos in this entire thread taken after sunset.)

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

This part of Western Dorset is clearly a good place to play a game of “Westcountry village or West Indian cricketer”.

Screengrab of Google Maps as I travelled through various small villages with quirky two word names that could potentially be given names in some Caribbean countries. Here we’re passing by the village of Burton Bradstock.

Screengrab of Google Maps showing the village name of Whitchurch Canonicorum.

Screengrab of Google Maps showing the twin village names of Wootton Fitzpaine and Catherston Leweston.

Screengrab of Google Maps showing the village name of Winterbourne Steepleton.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

As I took my first steps on Dorset soil, Lyme Regis initially seemed lovely. However, the seafront was a swarm of people, so I made a sharp exit (only just, mind you - the queue for the once-every-two-hours bus was so long I thought I wasn’t going to get on board).

Looking downhill from the bus stop in Lyme Regis down the main road towards the seafront. As is the norm for these traditional towns, it’s a relatively narrow street with three storey buildings on either side offering the usual tourist shops and cafes, with flags and bunting draped between the buildings across the road. Lots of cars are parked on the left side of the road, making it even narrower for moving vehicles to get past, and the narrow sidewalks are filled with people.

A view eastwards from Lyme Regis seafront, with a beachside car park full of cars, and various advert posters for local businesses.

A view westwards from Lyme Regis seafront of an incredibly busy beach, filled with thousands of people all with parasols. As a claustrophobe, this is my idea of hell 🤣

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

I got to Seaton five minutes too late for my connecting bus (a recurring theme). Sadly, the novelty tram in town didn’t lead anywhere that would help me continue my journey, so I would have to stay in Devon another 90 minutes before crossing my final county line of the trip.

Seaton tourist information sign. Too much text to quote but it begins:

Seaton sits on the mouth of the River Axe, nestled between the Jurassic Coast and the Axe Estuary Wetlands. It is the home of the Seaton Tramway and boasts many miles of glorious walks and cycling routes. Take a stroll along our lovely beach and visit our friendly independent shops. They are only a few minutes away and it is a gentle, level walk. We have some great places to stay overnight and a warm welcome awaits you if you are looking for something to eat or drink in Seaton.

Seaton's history can be traced back to the Phoenicians when they used Axmouth as a major port. There are Roman ruins at Honeyditches, now a scheduled Ancient Monument, with finds at Seaton Museum. The museum also houses a fine collection of local photographs, archaeological finds and period costumes, and can be found at the top of Fore Street in the town.

A random house in Seaton with a small front garden containing multiple flowers. I’m no expert so can’t identify the different species, but lots of different varieties of varying colours.

Looking east across Seaton’s shingle beach. Lots of holidaymakers with parasols to protect them on this hot sunny day, and in the distance are the tree covered Haven cliffs.

A thatched cottage with a distinctive yellow paint job on the outskirts of Seaton.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

I always thought Beer was brewed, but apparently it’s quarried! Sadly, I didn’t have time to stop to see if the village store sells Beer-branded beer (or indeed Beer wine).

Blurry photo of the entrance sign for Beer Quarry Caves.

Road sign pointing to a Youth Hostel, the Beer Quarry Caves, and a car park for Beer Head.

Window display for the small grocery store in the village named Beer, advertising all the typical convenience items including Beer, Wines and Spirits.

View from the bus looking at the Main Street in Beer village. Lots of terraced houses along a winding street, with bunting and flags draped between rooftops. Lots of flower displays on the ground and hanging from awnings.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

Mark and Lard kept me sane during the various tedious admin jobs of my early 20s. We always used to sing this one to our mate Joe: youtu.be/9wZ86vlXNcM?... Did you go to any of their reunion gigs over the past year? It was great to see them Carry on after such a long Stop…

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

A brief pause in the town of Sidmouth while changing buses, where the townsfolk boast of “the largest jigsaw display in East Devon”. I momentarily ponder who in West Devon has a rival collection to prevent them from claiming the entire county?

Panorama from Sidmouth Beach, with a rock formation directly in front of the camera, and a few hardy sunbathers sitting on the shingle beach to the left. At the extreme edges of the photo, large cliffs can be seen.

Photo of the window display at a local toy museum, showing a large number of jigsaw puzzles, each containing a typical picturesque scene. Names of puzzles visible include Cottage Gardens, Village Tombola, Paris Cafe and Three Bridges Crossing (The Edinburgh bridges).

An old church building with a sign saying Sidmouth Toy and Model Museum Entrance, and listing the various entrance prices for adults and children.

A swarm of seagulls floating on the sea, continuously bobbing and adjusting with every wave that washes into the beach.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

…I’m sure the village of Budleigh Salterton is very proud of its Britain in Bloom Gold Award and all its pretty thatched houses, but for me it will forever be the place name shouted by Mark Radcliffe in the Shirehorses’ seminal classic Now I Know Where I’m Going (Our Kid).

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

And onto the final day of my trip, where I had just enough time for a quick breakfast in Exmouth before continuing onwards towards a small village that is weirdly evocative for me…

Coffee shop in Exmouth called The Coastal Beaver, with the punny tag line of dam (spelled without an N) good coffee.

View from Exmouth seafront looking southwest across the bay towards Teignmouth and various other places I passed through yesterday. Unlike yesterday, the sky is brilliantly blue with no clouds visible.

View of a Ferris wheel on Exmouth esplanade. Since it’s early in the morning, the seafront is deserted.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

Sadly all these delays meant I’d missed the final ferry of the day from the fantastically-named village of Starcross, so instead of a ten minute boat trip over to my Exmouth hotel, I now had another 90 minutes of buses to contend with before dinner.

View from Starcross train station, looking across the wide river Exe, over to the town of Exmouth in the distance.

Screenshot of Google Maps, showing that I’m less than a mile as the crow flies from my final destination for the evening, but must take a twenty mile detour, heading north along the west side of the river into the city wExeter, before changing buses and heading south on the east side towards the town of Exmouth.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

One of the websites I’d checked said that Teignmouth Pier closes at 5:30pm, so I arrived at quarter to six unsure what to expect. Luckily for me it was still open (well, half of it was!), but given the entire town was eerily empty, they may as well have knocked off early.

View of the entrance to Teignmouth pier. A couple of children’s rides are at the main entrance that leads to an amusement arcade, and three resilient customers stand at an ice cream kiosk to the right side of the pier. The skies above are grey and cloudy, making it seem later in the evening than it really is.

View of the end of the pier, which is fenced off while maintenance is taking place on the wooden floorboards.

Teignmouth info sign. Text reads:
The wonderful old town you see today is the result of a fascinating and sometimes violent past. Shaped by the ever-intrusive force of the sea and by architectural fashions over the centuries, it has also suffered the unwelcome attention of invaders.
In 800 AD it was set alight by marauding Danes, in 1340 and again in 1690 it was the turn of the French to burn down the town. In fact this is believed to be the last time that English soil was invaded and occupied by a hostile enemy force. In the peaceful years that followed Teignmouth achieved fame as a fashionable resort for the rich and famous. John Keats took lodgings here, the marine artist Thomas Luny lived and worked here until his death in 1837 and the eminent harpist Elias, Parish Alvars was born here in 1808, Unfortunately the town again suffered the ravages of war, this time by bomb damage in World War II, but now it combines the commerce of a busy port with the status of a top holiday resort.

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Adam Keyte @etyek.co.uk · 14/08/2025

And so a whistle-stop “visit” to Torquay. No time to pay pilgrimage to the town’s most famous celebrities, Agatha Christie or Basil Fawlty, we’ve got another bus to catch!

Photo of Torquay’s Princess Pier, a fishing pier that barely extends beyond the harbour from where it begins. In the foreground, a speckled Larus gull stands on the rocks right next to the camera, probably wondering if I have any food it can steal.

Photo from Torquay’s Princess Gardens. In the foreground is a stone plinth war memorial, and behind it is a tall Ferris wheel.

Tourist sign and map, informing that this area is a UNESCO Global Geo park. Too much text to quote, but it begins:

All UNESCO Global Geoparks around the world celebrate their internationally significant geology and interrelated environment, heritage and culture.
Here in the English Riviera our geology covers four time periods, the Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian and Quaternary with discoveries being of such importance that they led to the naming of the Devonian Period itself, changed the understanding of the antiquity of man and today are recognised through one of the highest concentrations of protected geological sites in the UK.
Such a rich geological heritage and the sheltered aspect and subsequent micro-climate it created, has provided the right habitats for specialist plants to thrive on the thin limestone soils, rare birds find homes on the cliff ledges and farmland fringes, endangered bats roots in the caves whilst underwater sea horses shelter amongst the sea grass.

Blurry photo of the road sign at the edge of town saying Welcome to Torquay, the birthplace of Agatha Christie.

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