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Published: September 24th 2018
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Folks, this is going to be a short one tonight! It is 9:00, we just got back from a wonderful meal, and we have to meet the group at 7:30 in the morning when we will have breakfast before starting on a LONG day of touring. Touring is NOT for sissies for sure!
We have had a wonderful day. As the title indicates, I clicked two big items off of my bucket list today. They included seeing Stonehenge, which I wrote my high school term paper on way back ___ (fill in the blanks!) years ago, and seeing the Magna Carta in Salisbury Cathedral was another long held wish. Imagine doing both in the same day! I could write paragraphs about both, but I am tired and ready to hit the hay, so you are just going to have to figure it out by looking at the pictures and then Googling anything that you have further interest in learning about!
We did have a great drive today. England is a beautiful country and I think we were both a little surprised at how different the part we have seen here in the last few days is from Ireland and
Scotland. The hills, especially in Devon, are rolling and the fields are all enclosed by hedge rows vs the rocks used so much in Ireland and Scotland. The weather today was perfect—a little cool, but beautiful blue skies with puffy white clouds. Fingers crossed for good weather tomorrow as we will be taking a boat ride. Our hotel this evening, The Bedford in Tavistock, is quite old. According to Google, the town itself was built on the remains of a Benedictine Abbey, and was given its Royal Charter in 1105. It was an inn in 1719 and later transformed into The Bedford Hotel in 1822. It is the birthplace of Devon Cream Tea—we are not sure what that is, but we plan to try it out for lunch tomorrow, so stay tuned. The hotel is lovely and I may have some pictures of it for you tomorrow. In the meantime...
Stick a fork in me—I am done! Enjoy the pictures and good wishes to all!
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Lora Carbary
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Superb pictures and great weather
I hope you continue to get good weather for the rest of the trip. I loved the pictures you both rest up you have lots to see and do. Watch your step and enjoy to the fullest. Church was very similar to a church we saw in Germany on our Baltic cruise. Beautiful