Busy as we are most weekends in the warmer months we found ourselves suddenly a free weekend mid March and decided to head down to Rich's parents cottage near Slapton to just spend 2 days away from home.
Weather forecast was awful, but funny enough it turned out allright. Saturday a shuffle around Torquay, watching the rugby and a nice dinner at The Tower Inn in Slapton was all we did.
Sunday I had planned a nice walk in Dartmoor passing quite a few of the famous tors but Rich was feeling too unwell for anything longer than 2 hours. Had caught a stupid bug, Boo. He was still up for stretching his legs though.
Left the car at one of the many car parks near Hay Tor with a thick carpet of dark clouds hanging over us, threatening with rain.
Dartmoor is a funny place. One moment you're in the crowds that head towards Hay Tor, you cross the road next to it and all of a sudden you're all by yourselves. I had come up with this circular walk thinking of shelter from the wind and rain and this is pretty much what we got. A hill to our right to take the biting wind from the West and quite a bit of moss clad oak to let only some of the light rain through.
Had to backtrack twice to get onto the correct path but I had realised my errors early enough to only cost us 10mins each. Walked past an old shooting range and decided to take a shortcut on tarmac back to the car as Rich was getting too exhausted to do more.
Made it back into the biting wind where the cat was parked just as proper rain started to pour down on us.
Some photos from our wee walk:
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