Today was our big driving day! After another nice breakfast, we said goodbye to Caroline at Hope Farm and headed out.
Our first stop was at Reigate Hill, where we stood where Mom and Dad met over 70 years ago. Was very emotional… was hard to leave the spot.
We buzzed along the M3 for quite some time then onto the A303. There is a magical moment when heading west on the A303 when you crest a hill and there in all it’s glory is Stonehenge… and you can’t see the fences, the car parks and the hordes of tourists.
We stopped at Berwick St. James and had a wonderful lunch at the Boot Inn.
We had a long and frequently very interesting drive along Dartmoor country lanes with 4′ high stone fences on each side of the road… we could have put our hands out of the windows and touched the walls with our elbows still inside the car! And then we met a small truck… that was an interesting moment!!!
Finally after giving up on Google Maps suggestions, we asked a lady on horseback to help us get the last 1/2 mile into North Bovey.
A couple of Advil and a half of Strongbow, Elaine was good to go!
We are staying at the Ring of Bells pub in North Bovey. Our room’s windows are on the second floor just visible on the right.
This is part of the North Bovey village green and the view over the house tops to the hills beyond.
The old stone cross on the village green… that’s the grey one on the left! 🙂
Within St. John’s church in North Bovey, there are some very old stones in the floor… this one was from 1665.
Another view of the beautiful thatched roofs of the cottages.
A quick walk down the road took us to the bridges of the Bovey River.
This was one of the wider roads we traveled this afternoon!
We had a great dinner at the Ring of Bells and am currently sitting in the bar, where there’s WiFi and sending you all this Post… Cheers!
Onward to Dartmoor tomorrow!