Bridport, Dorset to Telford, Shropshire

This is a condensed version due to the seemingly hundreds of places we passed through over a very short distance.  It would take a year of writing and photo selection to cover it all.  On the morning of 27 July we left Wells travelling south to Bridport where the last blog post ended.  That night we got directions getting out of Honiton, having called at the seaside village of Lyme Regis on the south coast about 10 miles (16km) (excuse the use of miles but that is what they use in UK,  to convert X by 1.6 for approximate Kms) west of Bridport.   We also took the chance to ask if he knew of a B&B in the locality.  A friend of his had a couple of rooms at Awliscombe. They had a Landrover Experience course and also the daughter operated an adjistment stable on a very tidy property.  Look for Honiton near the junction of A30 and A35 in a line between Bridport on the south coast west of Weymouth and Cullompton on M5 north of Exeter on the Exe River.  From Awliscombe we travelled back to the same B&B we had stayed at in Wells then a relocation day from Wells to Telford, west of Birmingham, on the M5 motorway.  No photos were taken that day, the cameras were not enven taken out of the packs.

Bridport, the historic market town.  Such towns were described as "working towns" because they continued to function as a town that was not just preserved in a past age.

A pub in the main street titled "Lord Nelson".

The modern age, a tractor and baler being driven down the main street.

Not only in villages could the access be very narrow, however all vehicle roads were sealed.

A typical scene in Devon on our way to the B&B.

This traveller cooking an evening meal on the lawn of the B&B...

...while a couple of youngsters lay about nearby.  Young hounds being "walked" by the family.

Maize is also a common crop frequently seen near what appear to be dairy farms.

Not all farms were as one would expect and certainly not like the B&B we had stayed at not far away.  This farm is immediately opposite the pub.

A large "Farmers Market" in Collompton.

The seaside holiday town of Ilfracombe at the mouth of the Bristol Channel.  Has good Fish and Chips, but ...

...the beach is not much.  Hundreds of people in the streets but no-one in the water.

"Wild" Exmoor ponies that were branded and came up to the gate!!!!  In the Exmoor National Park.

A practice drive on the M5 before the relocation stint next day, and before turning off for the night at Wells.