These are pictures from the rest of my trip.
The Sea Trout Inn
A view of the pub
Dartmouth Harbor, near St Petrox Church
interior shot of the church
Dartmouth Castle, near St Petrox Church
white horse (chalk figure) near Nunney
Nunney Castle
interior shot of Nunney Castle
entrance to Nunney Castle from bridge over moat
Nunney Castle with its moat
Nunney Castle
Today, I headed off to Dartmouth, where I managed to find St Petrox Church and then to Somerset and Nunney Castle. What a cool castle! When I was there, the castle reminded me a little of Bodiam Castle in Kent, in that it has almost classic 'sand castle' lines, although it looked like the walls were pressed together and the towers stretched higher. When I looked at the English Heritage site later. the castle looks a bit like a Milk Bone dog biscuit :-)
After I finished at Nunney, I had the TomTom plot a route to one of the bases so I could hit the commissary. I wasn't really paying a lot of attention to where I was, so it was a bit of a surprise when I saw a sign for Stonehenge! I knew before I came over here that Stonehenge sits on Salisbury Plain but that didn't really mean anything until the first time I saw it. There is nothing on the plain but Stonehenge! You come up over a little rise and there it is! I wonder if anyone keeps statistics on how many wrecks occur there...
This was a great trip! It will be well worth another drive down there to see more of the castles. I put about 950 miles on the car in 2 days but it was worth it. I need to read a bit about Devon and Cornwall before I go back. I vaguely remember that Lorna Doone is set down there somewhere, I think...
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