From Poland we took a flight to
Bournemouth, England and rented a car with the intention to visit my Mother. 24
hours before we travelled the South West of England experienced some heavy snow
and some major roads were closed. We drove past many areas with snow at the
side of the road towards Exeter, and were only concerned that our remote night
stop on high ground would be inaccessible.
Fortunately we could navigate the narrow lanes with high
hedges, a typical feature of the Devon countryside and checked in at about 9
pm. The car park was ice. Through booking.com we chose at a discounted price
the Lord Haldon Country Hotel at Dunchideok. We made a room only booking. It
was a charming old wing of a former manor house.
We checked out next morning seeing
the snow covered landscape under clear blue sky and drove to Sidmouth for our
first meeting with Mother and a lovely lunch looking to the sea.
Later we drove on to Plymouth to
spend a night with musician friend David after a few minutes on the pebble
beach of Budleigh Salterton,
and in one of the charity shops.
We spoke about
making some music in the evening, David guitar, djembas and singing but instead
we went to the Bread and Roses pub to see his friends’ band performing, and we
even danced.
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