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Published: September 25th 2018
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Jamaica Inn
Location was in Dauphine Du Maurier’s book, Rebecca This was another long but good day. We were in our coach at 8:30 heading through the English county of Devon to the county of Cornwall. Devon is amazingly beautiful. We did end up seeing some of the rock fences outlining fields that we were so familiar with in Ireland. The weather was perfect—fairly cool—in the mid to upper 50’s—with clear blue skies and a few puffy clouds. It was a good thing that the weather was so nice since all of our activities were mostly outside.
Our first stop was at the Jamaica Inn of Daphine Du Mourier fame—writer of the famous book, Rebecca—which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock. The Jamaica Inn was in the book. I may have to re-read it. It is also in the area where the PBS series, Poldark, has been filmed. I bought a Poldark magnet...be still my heart!! We made a short stop there for photos and then headed to Lanhydrock House. This place was amazing. We made the mistake of listening to a docent in front of the house go on about the several generations who had owned the house from its main ownership in 1620. I can promise
you that we now know more than we wanted or needed to about the different generations, those who died without issue, those who had issue and the issue of those children. It was all very interesting, but it ended up eating into the time we had there and we had to skip part of the house. This was a facinating place that truly needs many more hours than we were allocated to spend there to take it all in. It essentially is a Victorian house as the visitor sees it today, but does have a rich history. It is a very comfortable feeling house and one that still looks livable today. Those of you who are really good cooks would die for the kitchen—after a fire that destroyed a good part of the house in 1881, the kitchen was replaced with everything the best and most modern of its day. Amazing!
From Lanhydrock, we were taken back to Tavistock where we had two hours free time before we were once again on our trusty coach heading to Plymouth which is so famous for being the harbor where the Mayflower took off for the New World. Plymouth was an interesting
city. Much of it was destroyed during bombing in World War II, so many of the buildings are modern mixed in with Medieval and Victorian ones. We took a very good boat tour of Plymouth Sound Harbor. It was a gorgeous evening for a boat ride and we saw everything from where Francis Drake set sail, the Mayflower launched, Sir Walter Raleigh lived, and Royal Navy facilities.
After the boat ride, we all scattered to find a place for our evening meal (we had great fish and chips) and then we all met up back at the coach and headed back to “camp” at 7:15. We have an 8:00 leave time in the morning (no suitcases out as we will be here at our lovely hotel again tomorrow night). This tour company, CIE, does a great job in covering all the things that tourists like to see with no extra charges, and they do a good job of staying in the same hotel as many nights as possible. At any rate, we will have a full day tomorrow touring Cornwall. We were there today, but will get the big drive and sights tomorrow before ending back up here in
Tavistock for another, I am sure, great meal at the Bedford Hotel. Then we will once again pack up and head down the road on Thursday.
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Laura Shade
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I love the Mayflower Monument. I can see the pilgrims now heading to the New World. It would have been a scary time for them, I am sure.