Harry looks around the shop at Braintree Gridserve
A Return to Chagford, Devon - 16th February 2025
We're off to Devon for the first time in ages - albeit without Fred who's opted to stay behind and look after Lucy the one-eyed cat - and once again we're taking the electric car. However, this time we're a bit more prepared for the extra time for charging, although it still takes ages as we leave at around 4.15pm and don't arrive at the rented holiday flat right in the centre of Chagford until about 1.20am. On the next day we meet up with Sis and Matt at the Old Forge Café just down the road for a coffee and/or hot chocolate, then we head off to Moretonhampstead to see Grandma J, before an evening in the Globe Inn for a couple of pints. On the day after that, we drive further afield - the having recharged overnight as Chagford actually now has a couple of working chargers in the Health Centre car park - to meet up with Sis and Matt again at Saunton Beach on the North Devon coast, followed by lunch at Squire's fish restaurant on Braunton. And if that wasn't enough food already, we follow it up with a very impressive Sunday roast at the Globe Inn back in Chagford.
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Isobel and Harry head back into Gridserve
Harry chooses food at Burger King, M3 Fleet South
Harry picks his order up at Fleet Services
We're in the Old Forge Café in Chagford
Matt checks the time
Harry reads a book as Sis looks up
A Victorian water trough in Chagford
Isobel in Astor's Bookshop and Art Materials
Isobel and Harry look at books in Astor's
Harry sits on a cool 50s chair
Isobel in Astor's book shop
The Dartmoor Shepherd - nice but expensive
The former Spar is now a fancy shop of some sort
The octagon in Chagford's main square
Harry and Isobel wander past Bowden's
We're at the door to the rented flat
The balcony looking towards Meldon Hill
The flat, up in the roof
A view of Chagford from the lounge window
The flat has some nice arts-and-crafts touches
The Globe Inn on High Street
The view up to the Globe Inn and St. Michael's
The main street in Moretonhampstead
Michael Howard butchers on Court Street
The curious Lion House in Moretonhampstead
A winged beast on a thatched house
The derelict Bell Inn in Moretonhampstead
A George Rex post box in a wall
The first daffodil of spring
Isobel peers into St. Andrew's church
A Victorian stained glass window
The nave of St. Andrew's
The nave window of St. Andrew's
Looking back the other way down the nave
The impressive Bowring Library
Isobel meets a couple of dogs
The closed-down Green Man Café in Chagford
We meet a cat on Mill Street as we head for a walk
Isobel tells the following cat to go away
A tributary of the River Teign
Isobel on the footpath to Sandy Park
An impressive tree over the footpath
The river runs wide and still
A weir on the river
The bridge to Chagford is rather narrow
Evidence of some old terracing on a hillside
Mill Street is closed off for gas main repairs
James Bowden's Moorland Centre in Chagford
Sis prepares food in the kitchen at Throwleigh
We play a gamer of Rummikub
The public bar of the Globe Inn
A rocking chair by the fire
Harry's had enough again
Isobel and Harry in the Globe Inn
The lounge of our rented flat
Isobel sits out on the balcony
The impressive Three Crowns hotel
Harry looks back as we walk through the churchyard
The churchyard is a carpet of crocuses
We're on the beach at Saunton
Isobel and Harry on the wide beach at Saunton
A stack of logs on the beach
Gertie and Doug Dog on the beach
Matt with the dogs
People on the beach
Matt lobs a stick for the dogs to catch
Harry's found a big stick
The dogs want some of Harry's stick
We head off back to the car park
Isobel goes 'oof' in a café
Exeter Road in Braunton
Squire's fish restaurant in Braunton
Isobel does a bit of crochet after lunch
The 1920s building of John Patts
Isobel outside Squire's fish restaurant
A 1960s telephone exchange
The possibly derelict Beacon Garage near Riddlecombe
An unusual Red Diesel fuel pump
A useful bus shelter where you can't see the bus
Harry sits in a rocking chair and glowers
Isobel carries on with the crochet triangle
Someone's left a skateboard leaning up on the bar
Beer pumps on the Globe's bar
A random cat in a jar
There's another cat on a windowframe
We eat an impressive sunday roast
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Harry looks around the shop at Braintree Gridserve
Harry looks around the shop at Braintree Gridserve
Isobel and Harry head back into Gridserve
Harry chooses food at Burger King, M3 Fleet South
Harry picks his order up at Fleet Services
We're in the Old Forge Café in Chagford
Matt checks the time
Harry reads a book as Sis looks up
A Victorian water trough in Chagford
Isobel in Astor's Bookshop and Art Materials
Isobel and Harry look at books in Astor's
Harry sits on a cool 50s chair
Isobel in Astor's book shop
The Dartmoor Shepherd - nice but expensive
The former Spar is now a fancy shop of some sort
The octagon in Chagford's main square
Harry and Isobel wander past Bowden's
We're at the door to the rented flat
The balcony looking towards Meldon Hill
The flat, up in the roof
A view of Chagford from the lounge window
The flat has some nice arts-and-crafts touches
The Globe Inn on High Street
The view up to the Globe Inn and St. Michael's
The main street in Moretonhampstead
Michael Howard butchers on Court Street
The curious Lion House in Moretonhampstead
A winged beast on a thatched house
The derelict Bell Inn in Moretonhampstead
A George Rex post box in a wall
The first daffodil of spring
Isobel peers into St. Andrew's church
A Victorian stained glass window
The nave of St. Andrew's
The nave window of St. Andrew's
Looking back the other way down the nave
The impressive Bowring Library
Isobel meets a couple of dogs
The closed-down Green Man Café in Chagford
We meet a cat on Mill Street as we head for a walk
Isobel tells the following cat to go away
A tributary of the River Teign
Isobel on the footpath to Sandy Park
An impressive tree over the footpath
The river runs wide and still
A weir on the river
The bridge to Chagford is rather narrow
Evidence of some old terracing on a hillside
Mill Street is closed off for gas main repairs
James Bowden's Moorland Centre in Chagford
Sis prepares food in the kitchen at Throwleigh
We play a gamer of Rummikub
The public bar of the Globe Inn
A rocking chair by the fire
Harry's had enough again
Isobel and Harry in the Globe Inn
The lounge of our rented flat
Isobel sits out on the balcony
The impressive Three Crowns hotel
Harry looks back as we walk through the churchyard
The churchyard is a carpet of crocuses
We're on the beach at Saunton
Isobel and Harry on the wide beach at Saunton
A stack of logs on the beach
Gertie and Doug Dog on the beach
Matt with the dogs
People on the beach
Matt lobs a stick for the dogs to catch
Harry's found a big stick
The dogs want some of Harry's stick
We head off back to the car park
Isobel goes 'oof' in a café
Exeter Road in Braunton
Squire's fish restaurant in Braunton
Isobel does a bit of crochet after lunch
The 1920s building of John Patts
Isobel outside Squire's fish restaurant
A 1960s telephone exchange
The possibly derelict Beacon Garage near Riddlecombe
An unusual Red Diesel fuel pump
A useful bus shelter where you can't see the bus
Harry sits in a rocking chair and glowers
Isobel carries on with the crochet triangle
Someone's left a skateboard leaning up on the bar
Beer pumps on the Globe's bar
A random cat in a jar
There's another cat on a windowframe
We eat an impressive sunday roast