A Visit to Okehampton Castle and Dartmoor, Devon - 28th May 2016

Isobel, Mother and The Boys sit in the sun

Grandma J chats to Fred

Fred and Harry peer around with binoculars

Fred on the swings

An old grass roller on Spreyton playing field

There's an old grey Freguson in the long grass

Fred's on the rings

Pub of the year: The Tom Cobley in Spreyton

Fred on the Chapel Park hill

Mother roams about

Isobel and Sis share a joke

Mother potters about in the kitchen

There's a squirrel in the garden

Harry and cousin sit by the hedge

Isobel and Mother on the patio

A Devon view from the garden

The field next to Mother's house

Okehampton shopping arcade

St. James Street, Okehampton

The old mill on Mill Road

A mob of Jackdaws hang around in Grandma J's tree

Isobel and Fred

The road up to the castle

Harry hangs on to Isobel

The gang walk down the lane to the castle

Harry and Fred run off to explore

The improbably-stacked ruins of Okehampton Castle

Time for lunch

The view over Okehampton from the top of the Motte

Castle graffiti

On the steps down the Motte

In an old hall

Mother clings to a wall

Pretty lilac flowers

Fred looks up

Another improbably stack of ruin

Harry balances something on his head

Harry and Fred get tooled up and join a gang

Harry gets a shield and sword of his own

Harry's sword is presented

There's a whole gang of lads having a sword fight

Harry and Fred cross swords

Sir Harry, the knight

Fighting is paused to see a puppy

Trees, and the castle ticket office

The nearby river

Time for a picnic on the bench

Isobel and Mother chat

Back at the ticket office

Derelict huts in the hills

Walking back up the road

Harry, Grandma J and Fred

Nosher joins the group, as Harry gurns

Fred cautiosly dips a foot into the river

Mother and Harry

Fred walks around on the rocks

Fred hides under a shield

We head off onto the moor

A VW camper van heads to Princetown

Back on Dartmoor

Mother sits on a rock

Dartmoor ponies

Fred wanders off

Mother roams around

Fred waves from a Tor

Isobel and Fred on a tor

The boys are dots in the landscape

Mother stands near a pile of rocks

Mother has a sit down on a pile of granite

Fred jumps around amongst the rocks

Fred waves a sword around

Animal trails stand out nicely on the hillside

On the rocks

Fred considers a pile of rocks

Isobel strides about

A gap-toothed Fred hides in the rocks

Isobel on Dartmoor

Harry and Fred

Harry in the bar of the Tom Cobley

Isobel ponders her dinner choices

The gang have a drink before dinner