Today we checked out of our AirBnB house and headed back to Cardiff, but made a couple of stops on the way. The first was in Taunton, the heart of cider production in Somerset. Sheppys is a 200 year old producer of cider and they have a sizable operation. In addition to producing cider, they […]
Today we decided to get out of the house, although it was a typical British rainy day. 30 minutes west of Torquay is the town of Totnes. There was a castle here as early as 907AD, but today the most interesting architecture is Elizabethan. The Normans got here early and the motte and bailey style castle […]
About 65 miles west of Torquay is the Eden Project. It takes about 1 hour 45 minutes to drive there, since there is no motorway in the region. The Eden Project is a remarkable enterprise. Once a disused clay pit, something that mars many locations in Cornwall along with disused tin mines, the space has been transformed […]
Today we headed off to Dartmoor, a large area in the center of Devon and one with a number of interesting historic sites. Our first destination was the visitor’s center in Princetown, near the heart of the moor. I had always pictured Dartmoor as a wild and desolate place in my head, and indeed in […]