Martha has been to Exmoor

The forecast was good for the weekend so we booked a last minute trip to Exmoor House Club Campsite at Dulverton as it's been over three years since our last visit. It was the first site we visited after Steve's retirement - so much has happened over the last three years!

The site is only an hour's drive from home, so we didn't set off until midday on Friday.  We were surprised to see the site was very quiet so we had a good choice of pitches. We set up quickly and after having lunch we walked into Dulverton and a pot of tea at Tantivy.  Like many places, there were several shops that had closed but it's still a lovely town.  It was a lovely sunny afternoon so we sat out until early evening.

Pitch 61 Exmoor House

We had a cool start to the day on Saturday but a sunny day was forecast so we did one of our favourite walks.  We set off from the site along the River Barle and towards Anstey Common - it was a long walk and quite challenging in places so we were glad to return to the site mid afternoon.  Although we sat out for a while, it soon started to get cool so we spent the evening inside.

On Sunday we decided to do a shorter walk after the previous day's long walk.  We walked from the site towards Court Down where we hoped to get some lovely views - unfortunately it was very misty so the view will have to wait until our next visit.  We returned to site early afternoon as we were both feeling tired and had a lazy evening.

The forecast was for a wet day on Monday.  It was still dry after breakfast so we walked a few short trails around the town, returning to the site for lunch when it started to rain.  It didn't stay wet for long to we headed out for another short walk in the afternoon.

After the previous day's rain we decided to walk to Brushford on Tuesday.  We thought the river walks would be too muddy so headed for the old railway track.  The walk was fine until we came to the last field when there was a herd of cows by the gate.  After our last encounter with cows at Wells we made a detour to the road and walked along the grass verge to the village so we could avoid the field.  We walked through the village and to the end of the railway track, which turned out to be very muddy.  Luckily our walk back along the lane got most of the mud off our boots before we returned to site.

Wednesday was our day to return home as I had an appointment in the afternoon.  We set off after breakfast so we could get everything unloaded and Martha returned to the storage site ready for our next trip.

30 August - 4 September