Today we packed up from our campsite at Dartmoor, and headed for Exmoor national park. We\u2019ve booked another adults-only campsite for 4 nights.<\/p>\n
Now, I know I\u2019ve said I\u2019m not going to take the back roads in England again, but somehow we ended up there again. Old habits die hard.<\/p>\n
I figured to get from Dartmoor to Exmoor it might be nice to drive along the moors. But… the moors had other ideas.<\/p>\n
It started ok, with only 2 or 3 \u201cI am NOT going down that road\u201d moments. I really wanted to keep Berties sides in tact and I wanted to make it to my birthday.<\/p>\n
So we drove along a nice two-laned road which was fine until it suddenly ran out. Well, there was a sign saying the road was closed ahead. So we took a diversion. It was a narrow one-lane road but do-able.<\/p>\n
Then, at the end, it narrowed even more into a goat track. Mike would have gone for it, but I refused. I was thinking about Bertie.<\/p>\n
So I made an executive decision as I did not want to be sitting in the car all day. We would take the Devon expressway (that undercover motorway from the other day) and just get to our destination.<\/p>\n
So we backtracked and hit the highway. For the 10 minutes we would be on it, it seemed a good compromise.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve realised you have to take on a different mind-set when travelling in the UK. It\u2019s no longer about the road tripping and the slow journey on the back roads wondering where you will end up.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s now about getting to your destination that you have booked up well in advance, driving via the most efficient method possible, and staying put for more than a day. So that was our new plan.<\/p>\n
Mike had booked the Exemoor campsite earlier in the week, in the national park for 4 nights. We\u2019re hoping to do some hiking and visit some local pubs, maybe find a cream tea (we missed the Devonshire tea, dammit), or a ploughman\u2019s lunch.<\/p>\n
We arrived at the campground mid-afternoon and it was already busy. Thankfully we were early enough to grab a decent spot as people were streaming in after us. We were in reception when a man came racing in with his caravan and we heard a loud bang. He\u2019d scraped his caravan on the metal pole at the entrance and ripped some of his caravan off. Oops.<\/p>\n
By 5pm, the campground was full! I thought that choosing adults-only we would have avoided the mad holiday crowds, but nope! Just a lot of people and their dogs. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s a nice enough spot, right on a river Exe, which is more of a creek.<\/p>\n
After dinner we went for a walk into the quaint little village. Just a few houses and a pub \u2013 the Badgers Holt \u2013 where Mike is taking me to for my birthday. And a phone box on the edge of town. Yes, these still exist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today we packed up from our campsite at Dartmoor, and headed for Exmoor national park. We\u2019ve booked another adults-only campsite for 4 nights. Now, I know I\u2019ve said I\u2019m not going to take the back roads in England again, but … Continue reading