March 2019
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In March, I visited Lynton in Exmoor, took a beautiful walk around Dartmoor, which would turn out to be my last before moving, and had a long weekend in Budapest playing escape rooms, sightseeing, and eating some weird food.
Exmoor
We visited Lynton and had a ride on their water-powered funicular railway, which was fun.
After getting to the top of the hill, we took a walk to Lee Abbey and back, then a long diversion back to town down via the Lyn valley and back along the river to the estuary there.
Exmoor was extremely rugged and pretty, with a fair few little hills to climb. Also I bought fudge from a local shop.
We had lunch on a pebble beach with terrific rock features.
A huge herd of goats were also enjoying the landscape, with several fighting over who got to monarch of a favoured rock.
The valley walk was gorgeous too, with waterfalls and finally, as the rain came in, a heron catching some fish.
We visited Lynton and had a ride on their water-powered funicular railway, which was fun.
After getting to the top of the hill, we took a walk to Lee Abbey and back, then a long diversion back to town down via the Lyn valley and back along the river to the estuary there.
Exmoor was extremely rugged and pretty, with a fair few little hills to climb. Also I bought fudge from a local shop.
We had lunch on a pebble beach with terrific rock features.
A huge herd of goats were also enjoying the landscape, with several fighting over who got to monarch of a favoured rock.
The valley walk was gorgeous too, with waterfalls and finally, as the rain came in, a heron catching some fish.
Dartmoor
Emily and I went to Meldon reservour, which happened to be one of the first places I visited on Dartmoor. This time we did a different circular walk, up to the top of the hills and across the old train viaduct (east to west).
On the second half of the walk we came aross a field with a row of trees grown a devon bank or remains of a wall, all braced against the wind. The weather was rather perfect for it, too.
This turned out to be the last outing I did to Dartmoor proper, and I feel it was a good one to end up. Four months later I definitely miss it, even if its wind and moody weather wasn't always to my taste. Still, it's nice to know that if I do return to Dartmoor for a visit sometime, I'll have some favourite places to check in on, and plenty of happy memories to keep me going in the meantime.
(Full photos: http://photos.nevira.net/2019-03-17-meldon-bridge/)
Emily and I went to Meldon reservour, which happened to be one of the first places I visited on Dartmoor. This time we did a different circular walk, up to the top of the hills and across the old train viaduct (east to west).
On the second half of the walk we came aross a field with a row of trees grown a devon bank or remains of a wall, all braced against the wind. The weather was rather perfect for it, too.
This turned out to be the last outing I did to Dartmoor proper, and I feel it was a good one to end up. Four months later I definitely miss it, even if its wind and moody weather wasn't always to my taste. Still, it's nice to know that if I do return to Dartmoor for a visit sometime, I'll have some favourite places to check in on, and plenty of happy memories to keep me going in the meantime.
(Full photos: http://photos.nevira.net/2019-03-17-meldon-bridge/)
Budapest
Budapest has been on my travel radar for a while, though like most cities I struggle to find enough things to do to justify a trip. So when Emily pointed out there were a lot of escape rooms there (it has a claim to be the European origin of escape games) I was all in!
We did sixteen games across three days and it was super fun, if a little exhausting by the end of it! The reviews for that are on my escape room reviews blog, so I won't go over them again here; they were an above average bunch with some especially memorable ones too. But we had time for sightseeing too!
Budapest has the same sort of feeling as other eastern European cities I've visited, in particular Prague. The Buda side also has some nice tall hills to climb up to get a view of the city.
We had a good walk along the hilltops of Buda, and across some of the bridges back to the Pest side. The funicular railway was out of fun that weekend (would have been a double-funicular month!), but we did get to ride the trams instead.
Budapest also served us well in terms of snacks, including bubble tea and this utterly ridiculous "freakshake" from Mr Funk:
More accurately, Emily and Tim shared that beast, while I just had a separate unicorn doughnut to myself because unicorn. We also had ice cream served in the shape of a rose petal, which was neat.
A good trip!
Budapest has been on my travel radar for a while, though like most cities I struggle to find enough things to do to justify a trip. So when Emily pointed out there were a lot of escape rooms there (it has a claim to be the European origin of escape games) I was all in!
We did sixteen games across three days and it was super fun, if a little exhausting by the end of it! The reviews for that are on my escape room reviews blog, so I won't go over them again here; they were an above average bunch with some especially memorable ones too. But we had time for sightseeing too!
Budapest has the same sort of feeling as other eastern European cities I've visited, in particular Prague. The Buda side also has some nice tall hills to climb up to get a view of the city.
We had a good walk along the hilltops of Buda, and across some of the bridges back to the Pest side. The funicular railway was out of fun that weekend (would have been a double-funicular month!), but we did get to ride the trams instead.
Budapest also served us well in terms of snacks, including bubble tea and this utterly ridiculous "freakshake" from Mr Funk:
More accurately, Emily and Tim shared that beast, while I just had a separate unicorn doughnut to myself because unicorn. We also had ice cream served in the shape of a rose petal, which was neat.
A good trip!
