B&Bs guests find praise for Devon and Cornwall in top travel guide

Visitors to the many B&Bs in Devon and Cornwall will find that the south-west has reinvented itself, according to the latest travel guide on the region.

The Lonely Planet's Devon, Cornwall and South-West England guide states that the area has "kissed goodbye to its corn-chewing, tractor-driving stereotype and been reborn as a tonic for the heart".

Indeed, the book claims that the region is "no longer just a destination for caravans, the blue-rinse brigade, beach bums or long queues on the M4".

Instead the south-west is now setting the benchmark for other UK destinations in terms its reputation for eco-friendly tourism, good food and fresh air.

Devon is described as: "The kind of place you'd wish you'd grown up in and would want your children to. This county just might make you rethink your life."

Meanwhile, Cornwall is heralded as one of Britain's most creative destinations, "a place where you can feed you brain, your appetite and your soul all at once".

Devon's neighbour Dorset was also praised for being "the essence of England - a lush, rippling chessboard of fields sprinkled with ancient villages and fringed by a silver sea".

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