Early start this morning, we have around 100 miles and a few places to stop off on the way. We are really getting into the swing of this motorhoming!!!
First stop is to get Mum a coffee and me a RedBull. It seems really weird to be stopping in at a BP even here in the UK, not like I can go to a Z or Caltex. I must say the BP's are really different here, 80% Marks and Spencers food, 5% Wild Bean, 5% cold drinks and 10% till, why not call it a Marks and Spencers!!!....not sure what happened to the price on the photo, but 91 is 157.9 and Diesel is 179.9
We had a drive through Tintagel, there wasn't much to see as the fog was still around. Next stop was Bude, this town has a carnal running through it down towards the sea with a lock at the end. Not something I have seen before, really beautiful.
Next we headed towards Clovelly, on the way we had a quick stop of in a little village of Kilkhampton where I took a couple of mins wandering through the church grounds looking at all the spring bulbs, and niced they must have had a funeral during the week as they had a lovely flower arrangement in the grounds entry
Next was the highlight of the day, Clovelly Mum had been here before but not me. I hadn't done any research on the location so was pretty surprised by the experience and I will be honest and say I wasn't prepared..at all lol.
Today we decided to take the dog with us, in her buggy and well lets just say cobble stones, step decline and my knee were not a good combinations, thank goodness for the New Inn and their Cream Tea's, it was a good excuse to stop and take a well earned break.
The lack of vehicular access to the main street has led to deliveries being made by sledge. This is not done as a tourist attraction, but as a matter of practicality. Goods are delivered by being pulled down on a sledge from the upper car park, and refuse is collected by being pulled down the hill to a vehicle at the harbour., It was interesting seeing people pulling their sledges around with all the tourist around. They also have donkeys taking loads down, this reminded me of Greece.
The views were amazing of the harbour as we got closer to the bottom.
We had a trip to remember for sure lol...luckily for me and the dog buggy there was a landrover to take us back up to the top where our motorhome was. I think my face says it all.
Laster on that afternoon after arriving at the campsite, we had a quick bite to eat, its just around the corner from our camping site, even found a couple of New Zealand bottles of wine on the shelf
Once dinner was finished, back to the campsite and take in this amazing view from the motorhome over the Devon hills out to see of a beautiful sunset
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