The last day – guess what – there was a problem with my packed lunch! The bag holding it collapsed and there were no blueberry bars so they replaced it with a peanut bar (which I wouldn’t accept – I hate peanuts). The manager was there for once and he got a new bag but…
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Exmoor – “Walking and Sightseeing” IV
No problems with the lunch on Wednesday, when we got the minibus to Dunster. Our walk started by going through the deer park and along a river past the Gallox Bridge in the castle grounds. As we moved further away from the car park we had views of the castle from the back. After climbing…
Exmoor – “Walking and Sightseeing” III
The next day, Monday, was a free day as some people were leaving and others arriving. After breakfast I started writing some postcards and then had a break to follow the “Holnicote Estate Walk”, which was in fact a walk through the grounds of the house. This started at the house and led past Gun…
Exmoor – “Walking and Sightseeing” II
The next day my packed lunch was again missing – but Ellie sorted it out again! All the groups took a coach to a place called Barna Barrow quite high up on the moor. It started quite misty and damp but cleared up quite soon. At one point we had a view across to Lynmouth…
Exmoor “Walking and Sightseeing” I
The start of July saw me heading for Exmoor. A slow drive on the Friday with lots of traffic queues. I was based at Holnicote House, near Selworthy. This is now a National Trust Property used by hf holidays, but it used to be the holiday residence of the owners of the Holnicote Estate. Cream…
A Weekend in the Cotswolds – part 2
The next day I had decided to do the walk to Lower and Upper Slaughter. The first part of the walk was through Bourton and past the church and then past the primary school. When building an extension to the latter they found the remains of an Iron Age settlement and so to get the…
A Weekend in the Cotswolds – part 1
My second weekend away was to Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds. As my niece and family live very close to the route, I arranged to stop there for lunch on the Friday – it was a pity I was very late because of queuing for an hour to get through Marlborough, as there were roadworks. I…
A Weekend in Sussex
Having had my holiday on “Waterways of Wales” cancelled, I found it very hard to find anything else to book as it was then getting quite late. The best I could manage was 2 weekends away – the first being in Sussex. This was an hf “self-guided walking”. As they say they want to do…
On one walk….
A friend and I were going for a walk, down to the Nadder. We saw: what we think was an egret and as we watched it it caught a fish; two swans come in to land on the river, then three more came in next to them and finally, after they had waited a bit,…
Steps out of lockdown – 2
Booked a seat and went to church. Booked the gym and went there – hard work, couldn’t do much….. Went to the library and chose a book myself! Went shopping. I could have got most of the things which I bought earlier, I think, and the clothes shop and Lakeland which I went into didn’t…