Golf

Dennis, Harley, Sander & Mats played golf over the last 2 weeks. They played at the following courses and enjoyed walking 18 holes and sometimes driving a buggy.

Twice at Stover Golf Club
Twice at Dainton Park Golf Club
Bovey Tracey Golf Club
Teign Valley Golf Club
Brigbury On Sea Golf Club

A day at the Beach & Plymouth

The weather was no so good tuesday morning so we went to Plymouth which is called Britain's Ocean city and the sun was shining.  Walking  along the promenade  the views are lovely. It reminded me of the bays surrounding Sydney.

Later in the day we drove to Brigbury On Sea. A stunning sandy beach in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty joined by causeway to Burgh Island. Bigbury’s most famous landmark is Burgh Island, which overlooks the beach itself. The island is accessible at low tide, when the waters reveal a causeway that links it to the beach. However, when the tide is in you can still reach the island by a unique ‘sea tractor’.

 

 

view from Burgh Island

 

  

 

                 In the evening we had dinner at The Rocks Inn. It is a traditional English Country Inn, nestling below the famous Haytor Rocks in the Dartmoor National Park 

Canonteign Falls

Canonteign falls is England's highest waterfall, descending 220ft . It was about a 30 minute walk to the top. The climb was a little steep in places but the setting is so tranquil with gorges and trees and the view at the top was spectacular. Puck & Molly ran around in the woodlands although sometimes we had to carry Molly as it was a little steep and as she has injured knee and has to take it easy. 

After the walk down we enjoyed sandwiches on the terrace.

 

In the evening we went for dinner at a country pub Ruggeslstone Inn set in the Dartmoor National Park.

The golfers 

Kents Caves

A tour of the caves

 Kent Caves in  Torquay and then on to Totnes a little village in Devon where enjoyed a lovely lunch in the garden.

A cafe for Cats

Street in Tortes

Powderham Castle

Powderham Castle is located in a unique setting just outside Exeter. The castle is set in the middle of a deer park. There are no dogs allowed so Manon & I headed back to Lilac Cottage along the coastline roads which  are steep and winding and narrow. The views are well worth the drive.

Dennis, Sander, Harley, Emma & Mats spent the afternoon at the castle. They walked around the castle and were entertained with the owl and eagle show.

BBQ

 I think back over the last couple of days of what we have been doing. Tuesday we wanted to have a BBQ and we needed groceries so we had to go to the supermarket ASDA where we had a funny experience. Manon Dennis, Mats, Emma and I went  grocery shopping in a big supermarket.  We had the experience of using the self service (fast checkout). There was nothing fast about it. it seemed to take forever,  about a half an hour, the man on duty had to keep coming back to help us. He told me he was on duty till 12 midnight and  I had to laugh and said I will never do this again with a big shop. When I paid the digital computer it said  "thank you for using the fast checkout.". There was a man behind me with 1 bottle of coke. I turned to him and said if you only know how long I have been here and I just started laughing, I  could not stop laughing all the way to the car. It was so crazy. I will never do it again with grocery shopping. We had a lovely BBQ and Mats & Emma made a lovely dessert.

Wednesday the weather was a little overcast so we drove to Exeter a historical city in Devon. We took a boat trip along the Exeter canal and stopped for lunch at The double Locks Inn.