Pros Travelblog - Day Eleven - Sunday - Devon...

[byslantedlight]

Woke up still in Cornwall (sort of...) and headed through Launceston via a motte and bailey castle for kiwisue...


...and then Roadford Reservoir for me, cos many many years ago I was on a rescue dig there and there's actually a board in the new visitor centre with a pic of Hennard Jaffer, which was exactly where I was!

Before (when I was there!) and now... A wee bit different - just imagine that house under that water... medieval settlement, that was. Sunken settlement now, I guess...

Then further north to Exeter, where we were meeting foxcat74. It had all been a bit Pros-less so far though - so it was a bit of a relief to drive the road to Cowley on the way... *g*


Then chatting and lunching with Pros-y people which is always lovely, and then the very clever foxcat74 took us to visit gorgeously 1920s Coleton Fishacre...

...which was the home of the D'oyly Cartes! So that was two out of three, but even better we could just imagine an AU 1920s fic, with our lads in evening jackets, all elegant and perhaps sharing the adjoining bedrooms... *g*

Plus of course Coleton Fishacre is gorgeous!



And I adored these deep deep purple irises...

Then off to Berry Head, where we watched sailboats crossing the sea, and wandered the Napoleonic fort, and decided that Bodie would have been in the army, and Doyle infiltrating the unit, working for Cowley of course... *g*


The fishing boats were all heading home then too, followed by trails of seagulls...

...and so did we.

To pizza and wine and George Gently - wheee! What did everyone think of it? I can't believe GG doesn't vote! How bad a message is that?! And... did Bacchus decide to stay in the end? I liked seeing his wife... I'd better not write spoilers here, but... Hmmn! *g*

And now... now we're about to dash out for our last day of holiday - back to Cambs. tonight, back to work tomorrow - waaah! Though of course kiwisue goes on, and there are still Pros-y people around, so... It'll still be nice, right? Right? Eeep...

Comments

[probodie.livejournal.com]

EEk I missed GG last night because I was at the caravan with my parents so yeah, please, no spoilers *g*

Fantastic piccies as usual - LOVED the D'oyly-Carte house *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it occurred to me that reading the travelblog and reading what I said about GG couldn't both work together, and that lots of people wouldn't have seen GG yet, so... I was good! *g*

The D'oyly Carte house is gorgeous - hope it's on your list! *g* When is it you're going, again? (I'm jealous - I want to go again already!)

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Thank you *g* It is appreciated!

We have so much we want to do whilst down there, I dont know what we'll end up seeing!! We travel down to Taunton on Friday 26th June and onwards the next day for a week *g* I shall be taking camera, although how good the shots will be compared to yours, I dont know LOL

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah Taunton... another of me old haunts... *g* And yeay camera! Point and click - that's all I ever do! *vbg*

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

Coleton Fishacre is *totally* gorgeous. My dream house. We haven't been down there for a couple of years so maybe it's time for a return this summer.

Lovely sea pics!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's absolutely gorgeous, isn't it! I tend not to think of that as my favourite design era, but actually... Frighteningly enough, so many of the bits and pieces lying around were totally familiar as well, as if my mum and dad had had them lying around - which I suppose they might have from their parents, so... Rambly-morning reply!

The sea was gorgeous - I'm missing it already!

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do love your photos. And it looks like you had a gorgeous day for it all. I am definitely going to have to head over that way one of these years. Coleton Fishacre for sure, but also those ocean views! Beautiful.

I'm sorry you're at work tomorrow! Holidays are always too brief... But what a fabulous time you've had!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Cornwall is gorgeous (just as it's reputed to be!) - and it also reminded me alot of the Isle of Man, which was fun! It's a wee bit odd to be back at work now, and thinking that I'll be here (well, somewhere!) until my next planned week off in September! (Although I've just had a very odd message from reception saying that my access card has been extended until September, so I must go and see what that's all about - at least I have a mystery to solve!)

Hope you're having a lovely day, and that the rain's cleared up - it's just coming up sunny but very windy here, which I guess you've either had or are about to have! *g*

[sunray45.livejournal.com]

All these people travelling around and taking us with them, via photos, etc. It's lovely. *g*

You have certainly shown us some lovely places and buildings. Funny how every place you visit, you seem to see B/D stories there. *bg*

I'm glad you've had some good weather and hope work hasn't hit you too hard.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Eek - work! Actually it's okay, it's nice to rest as well after all that travelling, and I'm looking forward to tucking into the zines and circuit stories I've brought back, and to catching up with my flist!

I really do think that I should have been born independently wealthy though, so that I could wander at whim and think Pros-y things all day long! *g*

[scherwood]

*happy sigh*
have to go where you went someday... =)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You must - it's beautiful!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I went to that Castle!!! I Loved Launceston!! Devon and Comwell, too. My favorite are of my trip. Thanks for sharing.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just a lovely part of the world? If only I was independently wealthy I would move there in a flash, buy a little cottage in the countryside by the sea, and write all day long... *g*

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

Hello! *waves madly to you and KWS* Just been catching up on the whole wealth of your travelblogs - how much fun are you guys having?! *g*

It all looks ace and I am so glad you've both had such nice weather, and such a nice trip. Hooray! And the fun continues despite work (she says) - why aren't holidays longer? I've just whooshed back from the Lake District and am in love with the houses and the lakes - so don't want to go back to work tomorrow! I wish I looked up whether there was Pros fic written about the lakes now... maybe we should make a map of Pros fic locations around the country and then we'll all know what story is set where - big job though! So fun to find these things though - those plants you found that reminded you of the plants Bodie spotted in Island Innocents really did make me giggle! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hello! *waves madly back*

The fun should continue, shouldn't it! We should be in Cornwall and the Lakes until we want to come back, right?!

And yeay Pros fic locations - I was thinking that we should at least do a Pros Fic Locations Storylist, but I like the idea of an actual map too - I wonder if you could make up one of those GoogleEarth tours, in fact?!

Bodie's plants were fab, and they will forever be Bodie's plants to me now... *g*

Hope you're surviving your day back too - and re MsMoat, are you free the weekend of the 6th, at all?

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

The weekend of the 6th? I thought I was, and then I think I am supposed to be at a Blitz Party (1940s shenanigans thing) which is the 6th, but no mention has been made of tickets. So I shall get in touch with pal tomorrow and see if we can go to the next Blitz do in July instead... hold that thought!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh god, your icon... *g*

Eep, Blitz parties! It would have been much easier if it'd been the coming weekend, wouldn't it! A Blitz party! *g*

*holds thought carefully*

[magenta-blue.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd like the icon! I made a few new ones tonight to chill my brain for a while *g*

The coming weekend would have worked better in a way, but I am still hopeful for the 6th - it all depends if that pal has bought tickets. I hope she hasn't! And yes - Blitz party! Some little place in Shoreditch (it would be Shoreditch of course - ultra trendy) where everyone wears 40s gear and the club is covered in sandbags apparently. And the music is swing and old style jive. I thought it sounded interesting, in a hmmmmmmm sort of way. Not sure what to wear though - maybe bung a few rollers in my hair, that should do it *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

That sounds interesting and hmmmn and probably pretty fab when you get there! I had no idea that Shoreditch was trendy... All I know is that it has bells... *g*

Yeay more Magenta icons! I suck at making icons - I have no eye for things until I actually see them, you know? I shall have to stick to nicking ones I like... I need more people to post icons! Mind, then I'd have to change some of mine... Hmmn! *g* But, oh, that one... *vbg* His lips, that smile, that bliss... *sighs happily*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

A prosfic location map .... great idea - and clearly another project for that lottery win ;) would be to make the Pros writing houseparty a moveable feast! *bg*

Thanks for another lot of gorgeous pics - and yes, eerie thoughts of an underwater hamlet!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - the Mobile Pros Writing Houseparty! Ace idea! *g*

I bet the lads would do underwater archaeology on the hamlet, actually... *has archaeology-head on today...*