Day 317/8 Sat 25 – Sun 26 August Broadhemston, Devon

Its a beautiful late summer bank holiday weekend so after a leisurely breakfast in the sun we venture as far as the White Hart in Dartington for ginger beer and mussels on the lawn. Dartington used to be a Cistercian monastery which was restored and turned into an arts and education centre by a GM heiress in the 1930s. It has beautiful gardens and stone buildings and although the avante garde school has disappeared it's still the artistic centre for S Devon although its future is uncertain as there are proposals to move many of its functions to Falmouth. After lunch we take Herbie the new dog for a leisurely stroll to the top of the nearby beacon lookout through wooded farmland.

Sunday dawns bright and sunny and after an alfresco pub lunch we take a drive over Dartmoor where the heather is in full bloom and the Dartmoor ponies are in fine fettle, before returning for dinner with friends of Anna & David who had driven over from Eire. All in all it was a very relaxing weekend and a most pleasant end to the journey.