Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Part II: Devon, 27 June to 1 July

 Knightshayes House.
Ditto.  (Grandpa: "I think this is the room which was a shrine for the son who died in WW I)
 Hickling Cottage (chez Grandpa and Margaret) taken from the back deck, up on a slope
 The pool, above that.
 Grandpa: " Knightshayes: the main hall from the balcony built for ladies to ogle the men"
 The lawn, Grandpa thinks, at Castle Drogo.
 Grandpa: "the vista from the terrace in front of Knightshayes House, with the haha in the middle distance (invisible, obviously)"
 Ditto.
 Knightshayes House.
 One of its rooms.
 The garden at (Grandpa thinks) Killerton House
 Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum.  (Thomas played Grandpa at an oversized chessboard there when he (Thomas) was tiny.)
 Grandpa: "appears to be a train going north from St David's Station, Exeter"
 Dartmoor: start of walk, Arms Tor on the horizon
ditto, flanks of Arms Tor
 Thomas's very own Tor, named after him by Grandpa (it's official!)
 Grandpa surveys his domain.

 Thomas's Tor and view to the north, including Great Nodden
 Grandpa: "Little Links Tor, I think"
 Grandpa struggling to keep up on the slope up from Thomas's Tor to Great Links Tor

 Old peat railway track

 Stoke Woods, just down the road from Hickling Cottage.

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