Plymouth - Darmouth
Plymouth
Tuesday 21st July 2009
Afternoon in Plymouth for a visit to the gin distillery, followed by an exploration of Dartmouth's pubs in the evening.
Darmouth
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| 14:57:56 Outside the Plymouth Gin Distillery. | 14:58:00 | 14:58:08 Chie standing in front of the distillery. |
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| 15:07:14 The bus stop outside the distillery - this rather appealed to me. | 15:07:40 More exterior shots of the distillery... | 15:08:25 |
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| 15:17:40 A quick walk down to the quay while we were waiting for the tour to start. | 15:43:44 The still room - there's the spirit safe... | 15:43:50 ....and a couple of the more unusually shaped stills behind it (I assume these were stills - not 100% sure). |
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| 15:43:55 Thats definitely a still. | 16:11:14 After the tour, a Plymouth gin and tonic at the bar, which had quite a nice vaulted ceiling. | 16:11:33 Chie having a sip of G and T. |
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| 16:26:27 The gardens of the nearby Elizabethan house. | 16:27:44 | 16:29:21 |
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| 16:31:28 Windy little street in the Barbican. | 16:32:31 Outside an antiques / bric-a-brac shop, I couldn't resist taking a picture of this giant lobster. | 16:32:42 ...including this inevitable shot. |
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| 20:16:40 Back in Dartmouth, I'd decided after a quick dinner we should spent the evening exploring Dartmouth's pubs. So here's the first one, just round the corner from our flat - the Ship in Dock Inn. | 20:16:57 Vera and Robin outside the pub. | 20:36:08 Chie striding purposefully up the hill. |
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| 20:39:22 Quite nice views out over Dartmouth from these windy little streets up the hill. | 20:39:58 The rooftops of Dartmouth, and beyond over the water to Kingswear. | 20:40:45 More Dartmouth rooftops. |
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| 20:44:54 Chie playing with a dog outside the chip shop. | 20:53:02 Playing Connect 4 in our second pub The Dolphin - not exactly my cup of tea here, but never mind... | 21:01:06 |
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| 21:01:11 Not sure why I have my eyes closed here. | 21:01:16 | 21:11:36 Chie getting in the way of me taking a picture of the Dolphin. |
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| 21:11:40 ...that's better. | 21:14:14 ...an evening shot of the nice little lane leading up to the church. | 21:16:15 The Seven Stars, which could have been pub number 3 (was tempted by the claim to it being Dartmouth's oldest pub) but we were put off by the loud music blurting out from inside. |
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| 21:22:54 So instead we went to The Cherub, which is just fantastic in every possible way. | 21:34:24 Chie in the Cherub. Hard to get a sense of how lovely the interior is from this couple of pictures alone. | 21:48:41 Outside the Cherub. |
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| 21:48:47 | 21:53:19 A seagull who we followed down the street. | 21:53:32 There he is again... |
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| 21:53:38 ...and again... | 21:53:48 ...and again. | 21:57:04 The little marina by night. |
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| 21:58:45 Some slightly naff attempts at night time shots. | 21:59:23 |
