Travel review: Adrenalin-pumping seaside break in north Devon
Holding on to a piece of wire balanced perilously at 15 metres in the air was not quite my idea of good time.
Looking out to see dozens of people watching me freeze as my fear of heights gripped me was pretty awful.
But making me wear a stupid yellow hat that looked like it had been stolen from an episode of Fireman Sam was probably the ultimate humiliation.
Yet adventure holidays are all about the thrill of overcoming your fears, so I had nothing to whinge about.
Attempting to conquer the high ropes during an adventure holiday in North Devon was the most scary part of my holiday.
That wasn’t to say that the other activities we took on were not high octane.
Somersaulting off a 20ft high rock into the crashing waves of the sea was pretty terrifying, considering I had never done it in a pool before, let alone the freezing ocean.
Wiping out in some surprisingly ferocious waves while trying to learn to surf was pretty hair raising too.
And taking on the gravity-defying overhangs on the climbing wall was enough to bring on a cold sweat.
For you see, Captain T Kirk was pretty wide of the mark when he said that space was the final frontier.
We’ve been to the Moon, orbited earth and sent funny little spaceships to Mars, so as far as I see that frontier is well and truly conquered.
If I was him I would have said: “Fear, the final frontier.
“These are the voyages of Paul and his girlfriend.
“It’s a three-day mission.
