Geocaches - 20
Walk Inspiration - Jarrold Exmoor, Walk 14
Pub - The Village Inn, Lynmouth
If you take Mrs Mappiman all the way to the seaside and don't have a coastal walk planned, there is only one way to save your bacon. Make sure that there is a National Trust Tea Shop half around the route that you do have planned.
We start in Lynmouth for a walk that my guidebook describes as "one of Exmoor's classics". I couldn't really tell you. For the 2nd week running, low lying fog adds atmosphere but ruins the views.
Route finding is easy - follow the pretty stream into the moor. Doesn't even matter which side of the water you are on, as there are frequent bridges but of course, we followed the unexpectedly high volume cache trail. Thanks for the smileys, kevham1 and CeeKay1, they added to an already fine walk.
There could be loads of photos like this |
With the odd bridge thrown in |
Watersmeet National Trust is a natural stopping off point. We are in Devon, but the debate on which order to put the jam or clotted cream was unnecessary, as I had been sold scones with neither condiment. I was soon sent back on a rescue mission.
Clotted Cream - 25p a pot. |
Waterfalls |
Nothing much to see here but Lynmouth is in the distance |
Made it to the Coast |
The Village Inn |
Sharp's Atlantic |
Unfortunately, the Village Inn contains the Village Idiot. But not from Lynmouth. This particular loudmouth is from near us in Worcestershire and spent 5 hours yesterday on a coach to sit at the bar in a strange town to laugh at his own Monty Python impressions, in-between goading other customers about their accents.
It can't have been long before he was chucked out.
But there was no chance he was coming back home with us.
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