Tag: writing
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Bounteous Bantry
As usual Bantry has so many gifts to offer, not least the wonderful parking spot in the hotel grounds, which were once part of the grand estate of Bantry House, which lies beside it. This means that there’s sub-tropical planting, along with woods of hazel, oak, wych-elm and willow. The sea-fed lagoon hosts the resident…
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The Pastoral Idyll of Rural Devon
We find ourselves on a bit of grandparent duty in Devon’s Exminster. But camping up in Crablake Farm is anything but a duty. Imagine rolling green hills; apple trees bent sideways; daffodils in lemon and gold. Just over the hill there’s the Exe Estuary in all its moods. We ramble along high-hedged lanes to Kenn,…