A little Flickrslidr slideshow of some of my favourite Devon images from my recent family holiday... Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR .
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Stairway to Devon
Finally found a spare hour while watching PANORAMA TRUE BRITS, to write-up the geo-highlights of the holiday week.
Spent a week in Dartmouth in late August in a house overlooking the harbour and the lower ferry. We had good weather most of the time, despite a string of depressions. Some highlights: Overnight stay at the Oatlands Chaser in Weybridge – recommended. There was a lot of traffic, as expected, heading to the SW, and ended diverting over the Newbury bypass and past Stonehenge in a queue. It was a wet day, and splashed our way through Totnes, and made it to our house above Bayard’s Cove overlooking the RIA that makes up the lower stretches of the River Dart. Lunch thanks to RIVERFORD ORGANICS , BURT’S CRISPS and ROOKBEARE ice cream. Click the HOW potato on the Burt’s website to see how they are made (and check the pack to see who fried them: mine were fried by Mike) Crabbing in Dartmouth harbour: apparently they love smoked bacon. Arri...
Prepare for a biggie...
This is a catch up from a prolonged absence from the world of all things web based. Had a very nice week down in Devon dodging the showers. I am currently downloading over 300 high quality digital images, and my wife took another 400. Look on FLICKR tomorrow, and will also be Animoto-ing some of them. Also enjoying listening to the WALL-E soundtrack at the moment...
On my return spent the rest of the afternoon (and now started into the evening) catching up with a heaving inbox, and various programmes I needed to download on iPlayer (the TV in the holiday home only had 4 channels - can you imagine that ?)
There were lots of interesting news items that occured while I was away....
First of all, well done to all KES Geographers for their A2 results . 100% pass rate and some very pleasing individual performances. Particularly well done to Chris. Below is the front of the Lynn News, which has a very pleasing headline, which of course refers to KES...
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