Short break in Devon

Just back from a long weekend trip to Devon with our friends, Andy and Amanda and their two dogs, Max and Millie.  We had a lovely time and a mixed bag of weather from sun and blue sky to drizzly rain.  We stayed in a converted barn in the middle of a 130 acre nature reserve - it was fab! 

We had a lovely double-sided log burner between the lounge and kitchen-diner.  Lucy was trying to get at Max and Millie's food bowls and, as you can see, got a bit stuck.  Fortunately the fire was not on at the time!

The nature reserve that surrounded us was lovely to walk in as long as you had wellie boots....it was very muddy and very wet.  We found a few almost deserted beaches that were beautiful so spent a lot of time there so that we could watch Lucy running up and down the beach on the pristine sand.  

She loved all the rock pools and seaweed.

 I loved the amazing geology - I have a lot of photos of rocks to prove it!  

On Saturday night we saw the most spectacular display of stars as there was so little light pollution where we were staying. To our amazement, we saw some shooting stars and later discovered that it was the best night to see the Leonids meteor shower!  How lucky was that?

I have now been semi-retired for a whole week and my feet have hardly touched the ground.  How did I manage to work such long hours in the past?