Uffculme - Cullompton Devon

We stayed on a small property in the country cottage called High Park Barn, which I am guessing was a barn conversion. We had a lovely green hill facing us with a horse feeding off the grass. Very quiet with a town centre consisting of a pub and a grocery shop. There are diary cows and chickens down the lane and sheep and a horse in a paddock across the road. 

The roads here are very narrow and the hedges high so you can't see around corners for traffic. It got very spooky when a car would come the other way and you had to find a way to move over or a siding to pull into for safety. 

As this was a base we took off for other towns. We visited Exeter with lots of young people as there is a university there and a huge cathedral which we visited when an orchestra was practicing for a concert so we got to hear them play and the choir to sing. The city is large but we will still able to get to points of interest on foot.

We visited smaller places like Topsham which is a beautiful sea side village with lots of small boutique shops and the Saturday had a market in the hall.  They had advertised that a food festival would be on that day we visited which was to have a 'long table' where the community enjoys a meal together on a long table in the Main Street. On arrival we found out that it had been cancelled for 2013 which was disappointing. We still enjoyed looking around at the harbour and shops. 

We travelled across to the 'English Riviera' aka Torquay to discover a different landscape. I rather liked Paignton as it had some very old looking guest houses and was what I thought Torquay might be like. We drove to Brixham which is a quant fishing village with a replica of the Sir Francis Drake ship the Golden Hind in the bay. It was very busy with loads of tourist but we enjoyed walking around the harbour. 

Our small village in Uffculme has a Woollen Mill called Coldharbour Mill and when we visited and got a guided tour of the machinery that used to be used for weaving wool. 

We had to laugh when we noticed down the road a security camera directed at a heap of dirt. Not sure if the dirt was special or what but it was being guarded out the front of a property. Very funny.