After a trip to Tavistock to get supplies for dinner, we packed our lunch and raincoats and headed off across the Moors along the East Dart River to a waterfall. The rain pelted down heavily for about 15 minutes drenching us all. It was a terrific walk but felt more like 8 miles than 8 kilometres. The scenery was out of a Lord of the Rings film, vast plains dotted with shrubs, rocks and sheep, with a clear babbling river rushing below. The ground was boggy, pla...

On Friday we drove 3 hours from Stow to Dartmoor National park. We stopped at Castle Drago, the last castle to be built in England. Julius Drewe, a man who made his fortunes with a successful grocery store called Home and Colonial, had a lifelong dream to have a castle as his family home. It was commenced in 2011 but due to war, rain and general difficulties of building it was not completed until 1936, a year before his death. Poor bloke, so his wife and 5 childr...