Leaving Devon

Posted on 2013/08/09 22:38:53 (August 2013).

[Friday 9th August 2013]
We started the day off with breakfast outdoors, and had the terrace all to ourselves, which made for a lovely end to our time at the Hotel Endsleigh.

After checking out, we drove back to Exeter (the less scenic way on the A30 to the North of Dartmoor), dropped off our hire car, and got a lift to Exeter St. David's. We were there before midday, and considered getting an earlier train, but then reasoned that they were likely to be busy, and we really didn't want to take our chances without having booked seats.

So we had a couple of hours to kill around Exeter St. David's, where there isn't really much in the way of places to eat. Chie suggested the somewhat radical plan of going to the Wetherspoon's pub we'd spotted near the station last time we'd got a train from St. David's. Whilst I'm normally allergic to Wetherspoon's pubs, this one - the Imperial - was in a very grand building, a former stately home of sorts, and so I consented on the grounds of architectural interest.

It did have quite an impressive interior, which thankfully the corporate blandness of JD Wetherspoon had not managed to completely crush. The food was off course awful (what do you expect at these prices) and we had to share the space with a few unsavoury characters (again, what do you expect at these prices) but I had to concede that overall it worked out pretty well - we had plenty of space for our luggage, there was a highchair for Erika, and we could just relax and take our time.

We got on our train around 2pm, and in our carriage there was a very lively bunch of teens on their way back from a school camp. They were singing South Australia - rather loudly as there were at least 30 of them. Quite a contrast to our very quiet trip on the way there, but I suppose it wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

We got back home around 5, and after just five nights off from cooking I seemed to have forgotten how to do it. We thought we'd just have some of Dad's potatoes and some vegetarian sausages for dinner. I thought I'd try and cook the potatoes in the microwave to save time / effort. Having already cooked one for Erika's dinner that way - which seemed to work - I then tried with a handful and it was rather disastrous. I don't think I'll try microwaving potatoes again.

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