Fish and chips on the beach at Weymouth

We are one street back from the beach so of course we had to have f & c.

We had a visitor while we were eating.

The seagulls here are very big.

There was some sand where the people were and then there were rocks.
Lots of cafes along the beach road but no restaurants, we discussed the fact that we had no cash with us, Warren reached into his pocket and said that he had two pounds. Well, we could have bought a cone of chips (the smallest size) but they did have card facilities so not a problem.
There was an off license on the way home so we thought we might have enough cash for a coke

Bodmin Moor

I have read lots of books over the years that mention Bodmin Moor and now we are staying on the north west corner of it.

I took this photo out of our bedroom window around 6 pm, nice and sunny still and again it stayed light until about 9.45 pm.

This flower looks like a gladdie but it is growing wild down on the coast about 20 minutes drive from here.

After dinner last night we went for a walk down to the front gates about 800 metres away, the above photo was taken on our return about 7.30 pm. The mist was really rolling in and I could understand how people could easly get lost on the moors. 

Pt Isaccs

We headed off this morning to go to Pt Isaccs, it is the site of the Doc Martin series filming and the scenery looks amazing.

GPS told us to go left out of the golf course, seems a bit odd but we followed along. It was a road but so tiny and windy. Glad I wasnt driving, I was dreading meeting a large tractor or any other vehicle for that matter.

Her in the box says take a sharp left, we couldnt even see a turn, whoops, yes there is one a very sharp left and quite steep as well, finally we got onto a wider road. Then she said go right and again it was a very tiny road, had to pull over a couple of times to let oncoming traffic pass and one time a car had to back up so we could continue, rather nerve wracking.

Around a couple of corners and there was Pt Isaccs.

Yellow lines mean you cant park.

Three tiers of parking which was paid parking and highly sought after, we are further down in our Mercedes (just had to put that in, just imagine a merc for a hire car!)

Lots if people around as it is half term school holidays. 

Apparently, there is a map that the post office has that people can walk around and all the buildings that were used, we walked the headland a bit then bought an ice cream for lunch before continuing on.

The Highlands

After our lunch stop, I ordered coffee then Warren saw the menu with scones jam and cream, they were good!

We set off for our next stop to Barnstample through the highlands, travelling on small roads and we think mist or clouds.

These cattle were on the side of the road and they werent going anywhere unless they wanted to.

Not much traffic thank goodness.

Very pretty, often the trees met above the road so it was like driving through a tunnel.

Whaten

A quaint little place on the coast. Trying to find somewhere to park in small towns is a nightmare, luckily we were able to pull into a marine park, after buying a parking ticket we walked out to the lighthouse.

Then we went along the pier, its half term week so busy with families and kids.

Some quirky buildings that I liked the look of.

Car Boots Sales

Driving down a secondary road this morning, we saw signs for car boot market. If we could get there, we would go. The signs were far enough out to get into the right lane, yay we are going to a car boot sale.

There was a line up to get in, we figured that we probably had to pay something and when it was our turn, I asked the young guy how much. When he said a pound, I realised that was what he said in the first place but I didnt catch it. I had a few coins in my hand so handed over the shiny coin. They are quite pretty mainly silver with gold around the outside. More like aluminum and bronze.

We parked up and walked in. Of course we weren't buying anything just looking as mindful of weight restrictions etc etc.

Warren did buy some fruit, three peaches for £1 and also four mandrins for another £1 except they called them satsumas. I only know satsumas as plums.
It felt muggy so he had to take his jacket off, the rain came later.

Lambretta scooter museum

While looking to see what there was to do in Weston Super Mare(yep, that is its full name, have yet to discover why) I saw this museum with 61 scooters.

Wow, it must be amazing to see all of those scooters in one place.

We took a walk along the beach first, it was raining so out came the umbrella and rain jacket.

On our walk we did need to use this facility. 20p (about 40 cents) to pee! Just outside of the photo on the left was another upright and that was to use a visa card! 

Anyway I digress, I was looking for a substantial building but not so. Doors were locked but there was a sign telling us, "If locked go to back door, ring bell"

Ha, they let us in and we just wandered. Great display of scooters and also a lot of posters and small toys of scooters.

The family model, green one and the white tray was the ute model, a scooter with tray attached.