Exeter and Bath

We spent the morning in our little red fiat roaming across the Dartmoor moors, looking out for ponies (not all as wild as they’re supposed to be).

Then down to the coast to the seaside holiday town of Torquay, buzzing with weekend visitors during this English heatwave – almost cloudless and in the high 20s. A short trip on the Tor Bay ferry, with a quick stop in the busy fishing/tourist town of Brixham for an ice cream before returning to Torquay was a lovely end to the day.

We left Exeter this morning to work our way gradually across the south of England to Gatwick for our flight to Riga, and then on to Helsinki and Tampere. Heavy  motorway traffic in the morning, but we still got to Bath in time for a ‘real Italian’ pizza that came with an unexpectedly large glass of white wine, and finished off with a couple of complimentary shots of limoncello each. A gentle cruise downstream on the river Avon seemed like a good idea after that!

We rounded out the day visiting the Roman baths – hard to take in how many centuries have ticked over since they were built…. Interestingly, while the atmosphere of most historic sites suffers from great crowds of tourists (including us), I don’t think this did – all the chatting and laughing and eating was pretty much what they did here 2000 years ago (though maybe not so many selfies).