Wednesday 25 May 2005
This morning was very foggy as we headed up into the Moors again for more Letterboxes. We headed up near Yar Tor but couldn't see it in the heavy fog, but we found two letterboxes that had been placed near the road. The fog lifted and we climbed Yar Tor (405 metres) and had great views over southern Dartmoor.
All that excercise gave us an appetite so we had a yummy lunch at the Railway Inn in Princeton in front of a roaring fire. Princeton is the highest town in England and has a prison built by French prisoners of war in the eighteenth century.
The last of the fog lifted after lunch so we headed back out to look for more letterboxes. We found none but saw an irrigation channel with aquaducts and an optical illusion - the water appeared to run uphill!
BBC is getting a hard time at the moment over it's weather presentation. They are using the TVNZ graphics, adapted to British conditions. Britain appears brown and Scotland is hard to see because of the lean the graphic is given. It is so topical that the House of Lords devoted yesterday to debating going back to the previous graphics!
All that excercise gave us an appetite so we had a yummy lunch at the Railway Inn in Princeton in front of a roaring fire. Princeton is the highest town in England and has a prison built by French prisoners of war in the eighteenth century.
The last of the fog lifted after lunch so we headed back out to look for more letterboxes. We found none but saw an irrigation channel with aquaducts and an optical illusion - the water appeared to run uphill!
BBC is getting a hard time at the moment over it's weather presentation. They are using the TVNZ graphics, adapted to British conditions. Britain appears brown and Scotland is hard to see because of the lean the graphic is given. It is so topical that the House of Lords devoted yesterday to debating going back to the previous graphics!
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