Hiking in Dartmoor
This week-end Rachel, Andy, Mike and
me went to the
Dartmoor
National Park for hiking. That was great !
This is a desertic hilly moor, with virtually no trees, only
pastures and heather fields but also ... peatlands and marshes. As
there were no proper footpaths, we had to cross many times small
streams and muddy terrain, more or less successfully
I didn't
imagine it was possible to find that kind of landscape in the south
of England. The weather was quite nice, sometimes sunny, sometimes
not, with a steady fresh wind.
On the way back, we saw a couple of roe-deers in a small wood. They
may have escaped from a hound hunting by about 30 riders and 15
dogs we've previously seen in the moor.
We slept two nights in a 12e century stone-built listed loft-barn.
It was lost in the middle of the country-side, accessible only by
three-meter-width roads surrounded by stone walls and hedges (GPS
is our friend). Despite a wood fire (that took more than one hour
to catch...), it was a bit cold inside. Hopefully, the place was
not
dodgy at all.
I Hope to get pictures soon.
