Taking myself off for some R&R time, I had a lovely afternoon at Torquay’s ‘The Grand Hotel’. It is a beautiful building, with construction dating to 1881.
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~ Bella

My dear friend, Alec, and I headed off to one of the (many) old pubs in the area. In this case, a smugglers' pub dating to 1540! To put that a little more into perspective, that's the year King Henry VIII died! ...and this (below) is the sign for the…

It was a beautiful day in South Devon and we headed out to find an old pub somewhere in the moors where they have had a fire CONTINUOUSLY burning since the 1700s! I love the old 'Table of Tolls'... ...a quick spin through the grounds of beautiful Bovey Castle... ...and…