More Moors, more food

The food themed road trips continued into Monday as we took a cross Dartmoor jaunt to Exeter, principally to indulge in a cream tea on the way to Exeter Tinshed Airport to pick up Veronique’s brother, Philippe. It was quite a showery day, dark brooding clouds and chinks of sunlight typical of the high moors and adding to their mystique.

We stopped at a couple of places to take in the landscape…whilst all looks barren there is plenty of life up here – Dartmoor ponies and the inevitable sheep standing in the middle of the road and a few friendly birds.

The eastern edge of the moors descends into a Devonyllic realm of patchwork fields, thatched cottages and cream teas.

Have I mentioned cream teas? Oh, yeah, about that, we drove through the gorgeous village of Drewsteignton, down to the steep sided valley around Fingle Bridge, home of the inventively named Fingle Bridge Inn, where food was being served. Aforementioned food included freshly baked scones accompanied by a huge bowl of thick yellow Devon clotted cream and another bowl of strawberry jam, washed down with the finest pot of her majesty’s finest tea. What a way to do lunch!

This blog is rapidly turning into a food tour of England and is probably blacklisted by FatFighters! Whilst it seems like it, it’s not all food, food, food you know…we did manage a bit of a jaunt along the beautiful stretch of river near the pub, all green and ancient and thriving at this time of year.

However much we all dislike the rain, it does provide for an amazing richness of life and, perhaps more importantly, the greenest grass for the cows to produce the finest Devon cream tea!