dartmoor, england and my mum!

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November 2nd 2009

Published: February 4th 2010

Can you even imagine how excited I was to see my 'mum' after being without her for almost 8 months?! Sometimes I would have day dreams about stepping off the plane in Bristol and seeing her excited face! I can't tell you HOW ECSTATIC I was to see her! Well, that moment finally came after counting down the days to November 2nd. We exited the Bristol airport immigration gates around 6pm and there ... Read Full Entry

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map of Dartmoor

Dartmoor is huge!

cooking at the hostel

The Sparrowhawk Backpackers Hostel in Moretonhampstead

our eco hostel had chickens!

only in england would a supermarket be in a castle

searching for the infamous Trago Mills to buy boots, more socks and rain gear.

Dartmoor

letterboxes on Hound Tor

Dartmoor

pub letterboxing at Two Bridges Hotel

this Inn was seriously in the middle of nowhere and there was a creepy ghostly feeling about the place, typical for Dartmoor. We had a great time looking at the logbook and stamping in. And the Jail Ale was great!

ninja master 1987

this letterboxer from 1987 had an awesome stamp

more tea please!

tages and emily's stamp- tofu town

in the US we have our own stamps but we thought it would be easier to carve a stamp for both of us to use in Dartmoor. The stamp is meant to represent us on our trip travelling all over and finding refuge in our little tent. we called our tent tofu town b/c it was safe and we had our own space and we could be ourselves in our tofu town land.

awesome old letterbox stamps

East Dart Hotel

no letterbox inside but a delicious dinner and lots of laughs

Proper Job beer on tap

East Dart Inn

we laughed so hard that night. i don't know what it was, maybe the exhaustion of being on the moors all day or maybe it was the beers but mom's jokes were the funniest they had ever been!

East Dart Inn for a hilarious dinner: one of my favorite dinners in england

I think we heard some of mom's classics like, "Let's be frank, jim" and "i've toasted a few ciao's" from mom a couple of times that night.

carb delicious dinner

there's a potatoe somewhere in all that deliciousness

as long as it's english, mom loves it!

the elusive apple pie

And for the final laugh...as we all know mom is hilarious to travel with b/c 1. she loves england and 2. she finds everything to be soooo different than the US...so she was eyeing the cake display all through dinner and then decided to ask our poor waitress (who probably thought we were drunk or crazy b/c all we did was laugh) "what that elusive english delicacy was called in the display" and she answered back..."it's called apple pie, ma'am". mom's dreams were crushed, that wasn't exotic at all!!

Moretonhampstead

17th May 2010

Kristy
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Navigator.
I laughed, and Laughed, and LAUGHED at Tages driving, and Emily being the navigator. if you're anything like me and Brad, we fight like crazy when in an unfamiliar place. I'm the navigator and have a way of getting distracted. One wrong turn, and I have Brad telling me we don't have any time for mistakes. Yes, this happened in Pittsburgh, and any other time we have been anywhere outside of our element. Good times!

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