• Take a guided tour with the City's volunteer Redcoat guides - tours leave the Cathedral Green or the Quay and last 1-2 hours

• City walls (incomplete)
• Exeter Cathedral, [1] and the cathedral green
• Guildhall, [2], claimed to be the oldest municipal building in England still serving its original purpose
• Historic quayside
• Medieval churches in the city centre: St Martin's, St Mary Arches, St Mary Steps, St Olave's St Petrock's, St Stephen's
• Parliament Street, claimed to be the world's narrowest.
• Rougemont Castle
• Royal Albert memorial museum
• St Nicholas Priory, [3], the 900-year-old guest wing of a former Benedictine Priory (currently closed for renovation, expected to re-open 2008).
• Underground passages (closed until Autumn 2007)
• University of Exeter parkland campuses and sculpture walk

By plane

UK Domestic flights operated by flybe. to Exeter International Airport are available from the following destinations;

• Belfast City (BHD)
• Edinburgh (EDI)
• Glasgow (GLA)
• Guernsey (GCI)
• Jersey (JER)
• Leeds Bradford (LBA)
• Manchester (MAN)
• Newcastle (NCL)
• Norwich (NWI)

Skybus also operates services to and from St. Mary's - Scilly Isles (ISC) during the summer.

International flights to Exeter operated by flybe. are available from the following destinations;

• Alicante (ALC)
• Amsterdam (AMS) - From 29th October 2006
• Bergerac (EGC)
• Brest (BES)
• Chambery (CMF) - From 23rd December 2006
• Dublin (DUB)
• Geneva (GVA) - From 23rd December 2006
• Malaga (AGP)
• Murcia (MJV)
• Palma (PMI)
• Paris (CDG)
• Salzburg (SZG) - From 16th December 2006

Air Transat also operates a scheduled service to Toronto, Canada. There are charter flights to many holiday destinations.

By train

Exeter is on the London Paddington to Cornwall line. Exeter has two railway stations which are Central and Exeter St. Davids. The average journey time from London Paddington to Exeter St. Davids is anywhere between 2 and 3 hours, with the average being around 2 hours 30 minutes. There is also a slower service from London Waterloo which can take upto 4 hours. Central station is literally a 5 minute walk into the city centre along Queen Street.

By Bus

National Express operate a number of bus services from points around the United Kingdom that arrive into the city's bus and coach station, located in Paris Street, only a few minutes walk to the main shopping area in High Street and the cathedral green.

One major operation into Exeter is a nine times a day service from London's Victoria Coach Station (Service Numbers 501, 404 & 406) where fares can be as low as £2.00 return if you book early of course. Just click on the ways to save icon on the website to purchase a fun fare reservation.

WEB LINK : National Express

Buses within the city are operated by Stagecoach Devon, who also operate buses to most regional destinations. Some regional routes are operated by FirstBus, and by small independent operators. However, the central area of the city is fairly small, so it is easy to get around on foot.

• The High Street is mostly taken up by national clothing and electronics chains, and was branded a "clone town" in a 2005 poll of bland high streets. At that point Exeter High Street had only one "independent" shop (a tabacconist).
• Larger concentrations of independent shops can be found in the streets just off the High Street. Fore Street has a number of good outdoor goods shops. Gandy Street and the Cathedral Green offer a similarly eclectic range of retailers. Magdalen Road, a few minutes walk from the city centre, offers award winning butchers and fishmongers as well as handmade jewellery and giftshops.
• A major redevelopment of Princesshay and surrounding streets has brought many new or redeveloped shops and restaurants.
• Mall-type shopping developments in the city include the Guildhall and Harlequins

What follows is a small selection of the city's restaurants; the national chains of Pizza houses etc are also well represented, some of them in attractive settings e.g. ASK and Pizza Express on Cathedral Green, and Zizzi's in Gandy Street. Outdoor cafés are currently (2007) multiplying in the city centre.

Budget

• Chadni's, Heavitree Road. Kashmiri edit
• Dinosaur Café, New North Road.  edit
• Gandhi, New North Road.  edit
• New Horizon Café, 47 Longbrook Street.  edit
• Taj Mahal, Queen Street.  edit

Midrange

• Al Fared, Cathedral Green. Moroccan edit
• Blue Fish brasserie, Queen Street.  edit
• Cat in the Hat, Magdalen Road. [4] edit
• Cohiba, 36 South St. Tapas edit
• Closed, Castle Street. Russian edit
• Hour Glass Inn, Melbourne Street. superior pub-type venue edit

Splurge

• Café Paradiso, in the Hotel Barcelona, Magdalen Street.  edit
• ExeShed, Bedford Street.  edit
• Michael Caine's, in the Royal Clarence Hotel, Cathedral Green.  edit
• Olive Tree, in the Queen's Court Hotel.  edit
• St Olave's Court, Mary Arches Street.  edit