April - & it's time for the first road trip of the year. RogueRunners devon is a bit of a cheat really as I use the same routes & the same hotel each year.
We started at Andover with a breakfast in the Premier Inn, then headed um - east. Only one stop on the A303, because then we went south past the excellent Museum of Army Flying to pick up the A30 through Salisbury, where we turned west.
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| Railway Carriage in the background |
We got a clear run through the zigzags at Compton Abbas & stopped for our first Coffee & cake at "The Udder Farm Shop" - no idea where it is, but it's very nice. Then on, passing the place where the cyclewing detached from my girlfriend's Tiger last year - no such difficulties this time, so we did get to stop at Pip's cafe-in-a-railway-carriage (we sat in a bus), which again was nice, but
very expensive.
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| In the bus |
By now we were properly west & just needed to cross the M5 to be in cream tea country. With that out of the way, we headed diagonally up across Exmoor - no freezing low cloud this year & we descended to the coast at Lynmouth, before refuelling at Hele & pulling into the excellent "Laston House" - our accommodation at Ilfracombe.
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| The Mercedes is NOT one of ours! |
After unloading, we headed to the Lime Kiln for tea - fish & chips six times was the order of the day & very good it was too.
It wasn't too far to stroll back, & straight to bed - the weather was looking fine for the morning.
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