the long Easter weekend, the girls and I left for a two day, three night stay at a B&B in Dartmoor National Park http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/Dartmoor was designated a National Park by statute in 1951. It is 368 square miles (954 sq km) in area, has about 33,400 people living in it, and millions of people visit it each year. It reminded me of being in the Boundary Waters in Minnesota, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters_Canoe_Area_Wilderness
It would be best if you had a topographical map and a compass, maybe even a GPS. I had my runner's GPS, which died 30 minutes into our first walk. Needless to say, we were not very reckless, and by that I mean, on our first day out, we stuck to the roads. After all, there are signs that tell you which direction is the next town.
Only problem is that many of them are single track. Which means one car, one way; or if you're on foot, one car and you need to get OUT OF the way on foot! We were chased off of one road by 3 tracters. They are bigger!We saw all weather, rain, snow, sleet, sun and wind.
We saw wild ponies. You know it's going to be a blustery day when the ponies are in the valley tucked away from the wind!
Plenty of sheep [there was a stand-off on a single track road!]
We saw stone circles [think Stonehenge with overgrowth].We saw remains of huts from the Bronze age, which were hollwed out stone circles that would have had twigs and br
anches for a roof over the stone walls.We stayed in a B&B that allowed dogs, but not kids. Nice place. Great hosts. Still not that much fun to be single in a B&B. Lots of times you aren't allowed to cross-polinate or socialise, like dinner!
It's a a great venue. I'll go back with maps and somebody to talk to. At least I can have a bigger room!
