We are now on another holiday in Herman our motorhome. We are going to be touring Cornwall but for a couple of nights we are staying in the Dartmoor National Park in Devon.
Today was our first full day and it hasn't stopped raining since we woke up. So we decided to head out into the Park and see it from the driver's seat, as it were.
We ended up in Postbridge, had a great lunch at the East Dart Hotel when the weather started to clear a bit. After buying a guided walk we set off on 4 mile hike up a Tor (hill with jagged rocks).
The route was simple but somehow we still managed to go the wrong way and get lost! Looking at the map in the guide didn't help because we'd gone on too far before we had realised we'd gone the wrong way. So, we didn't know where we were.
We could walk back the way we came but that seemed a long way. I took out my smart phone hoping to use its GPS and the map application but it needs a phone signal to work and I didn't have that. Instead I fired up the compass application and using that and the guide map I managed to figure out where we were and get us back on the right track. We had walked over a kilometre in the wrong direction.
Today was our first full day and it hasn't stopped raining since we woke up. So we decided to head out into the Park and see it from the driver's seat, as it were.
We ended up in Postbridge, had a great lunch at the East Dart Hotel when the weather started to clear a bit. After buying a guided walk we set off on 4 mile hike up a Tor (hill with jagged rocks).
The route was simple but somehow we still managed to go the wrong way and get lost! Looking at the map in the guide didn't help because we'd gone on too far before we had realised we'd gone the wrong way. So, we didn't know where we were.
We could walk back the way we came but that seemed a long way. I took out my smart phone hoping to use its GPS and the map application but it needs a phone signal to work and I didn't have that. Instead I fired up the compass application and using that and the guide map I managed to figure out where we were and get us back on the right track. We had walked over a kilometre in the wrong direction.
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| Herman in Dartmoor |
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| Zoe in the rain on Bellever Tor |
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