Spending another traveling. Quite a bit of journey, more than four hours with three changes. I don't mind long journeys if I don't need to change trains too many times, then I can focus on something and get some work done. This isn't happening today, so I figured I'd rather write a pending blog post. The weekend before last one I went to hike on Dartmoor with a group of people. It's a national park, part of the moorland and popular hiking place in Devon. I had heard about it before, so was looking forward to going there.
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| On the way up |
Everyone who is familiar with British weather knows what a difference sunshine can make here! The day it's sunny outside it's like a freaking festival (!), but probably because everything does look very pretty in the sun here. We got lucky on our hiking day as there was some sunshine in the morning and wasn't very cold. Dartmoor weather has its own mind people say, so wasn't really sure what to expect. We got some drizzles but was lucky that it didn't pour down.
The most interesting part of Dartmoor landscape is granite hilltops. Later I learned that this place includes the largest area of granite in Britain. On our way up we saw Dartmoor ponies wandering around freely. They were super adorable!
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| This photo was taken by Joey. I really like it, couldn't help posting! |
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| Ponies! |
I wasn't sure how difficult the hike would be and which shoes to wear. It wasn't too steep or difficult actually, only need supportive shoes for the rocks - LOTS of them there! Other than that it was quite fun to chat with people while hiking. We had a little lunch/ picnic after we hiked up. The weather started to look more dramatic by then.
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| From the top |
