Duration
Seven nights
When
Spring 2024
Why?
Sampling gorgeous scenery and superb food in these two beautiful counties
When shall we four meet again? Hopefully not in thunder, lightning or rain! Because Dartmoor dripped. Frog-green, mossy tree trunks soaked up every downpour like a sponge, while roadside streams gurgled more than usual. But on Pew Tor, the sun peeped out and cast rays over four haggard-looking hawthorn bushes, yet to leaf.
Their exposed forms were windswept, bent like the witches of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, as I approached the otherworldly rock formations at the tor’s summit. At least a meal at Langstone Manor Holiday Park’s onsite restaurant, only a 30-minute walk away, awaited my return.
I had opted for a tour of Dorset and Devon to enjoy its food and drink scene. But a week of indulgence called for locations where a good walk was possible, too. A series of stately homes and gardens, alongside windswept hills for a rousing stomp to the summit, seemed a good match.
Lock, stock and beer barrels
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