Saturday 22 May 2005

Today we went into the Moors. After breakfast and a load of washing we drove around the western side of Dartmoor National Park then through the moor to Princeton. Along the way we stopped and climbed an unnamed Tor.

Once in Princeton we gathered ourselves and headed west. We went for a wander in the wilderness and saw sheep and the famous Dartmoor ponoes. While we were out we climbed Vixen Tor - which is mentioned in Arthur Conan Doyle's "Hound of the Baskervilles" - and looked for Letterboxes. We found only one before the rain set in so we headed back to Princeton for lunch. We had lunch in once cafe, then a drink in a Pub, and finally dessert in another cafe to collect different letterbox stamps.

After lunch it was hailing so headed home. The roads are very narrow and there is not much room for vehicles to pass. In places it is also very steep - in one place the gradient was 1 in 4.

We arrived back at the cottage and watched TV - the locals are a little upset about the Eurovision song contest as Britain finished 3rd last. Personally, I thought they were all equally bad and didn't deserve to be on TV.