GETTING LOST 2



me and my gggg grandparents Sourton Devon

 The last day of the road trip has arrived and we will both heave a sigh of relief when the car is finally returned in Oxford. Admittedly it has enabled us to get to see so many things that are inaccessible by public transport but navigating the minutia of the roads has been very tricky at times (most of the time truth be known). We spent two days in Devon on the edge of Dartmoor in Sourton ..where my Pellow ancestors emigrated from in the 1850s....my cousin (6th mind you)Mark Pellow treated us to a tour of Pellow "sites" and some wonderfu home cooking. I met Pellows still farming in Sourton although "our" farm(Beatdown)was no longer in use and the old farmhouse was a ruin. We wanted to do some walking on Dartmoor but it was very wet so that was a shame....it is very beautiful country and loads of history (bit like the rest of England really)....but the Iron Age sites are the most extensive in Europe. On the way here (Kelmscott) we crossed the Salisbury Plains so stopped in at Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles.....both were astonishing! Now we are in the Cotswolds staying at William Morris's old watering hole The Plough Inn. This is a Tudor hamlet, little changed since the 15th century and we will visit William Morris's Kelmscott Manor this morning (a 2 minute walk from here)...what a treat!! The sun is shining for the first time in 5 days so we will make the most of it... back to London and Ben this arvo on the train.... Kath xo