Variety is the spice of life so they say and yesterday saw me travelling down to Devon to work there today.
This morning saw me up bright and early to go onto Dartmoor to Haytor to record this audio snippet and to grab a couple of photographs.
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Dartmoor is an outstandingly beautiful but sometime bleak area with its granite boulders and Tors atop windswept high moorland; its potentially treacherous bogs and standing stones and stone dwelling circles of the past. You feel small below the expanse of sky unbroken by trees or buildings for miles in every direction, the landscape splashed with the Greens of Bracken and the Purple splashes of Purple Moor Grass and Heather.
Sometimes I feel the area is best seen in bad weather as you feel more of the menace of the place. No wonder it was the setting for the Hound of the Baskervilles and for the prison break in The Sittaford Mystery. It has many faces; on a sunny morning it seems like a walk in the park, on a foggy day standing on a granite plateau above the cloud it is something else altogether.
Links:
Dartmoor National Park Authority
If you are looking for somewhere to stay then I can highly recommend the Edgemoor Country House Hotel located on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in Bovey Tracey.
