Dartmoor Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/dartmoor/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Sun, 01 Dec 2013 07:05:36 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Dartmoor Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/dartmoor/ 32 32 2696646 Butterflies and Otters https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/butterflies-and-otters/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/butterflies-and-otters/#respond Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:35:38 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=8631 Just another post about our trip to Dartmoor and a visit to Buckfast where we went to the Butterfly and Otter sanctuary. The butterflies were spectacular and we followed a keeper around whilst he was feeding the otters so got to know a little of the history of each otter as he gave a talk...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/butterflies-and-otters/feed/ 0 8631 Wild Swimming at Hexworthy https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/wild-swimming-at-hexworthy/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/wild-swimming-at-hexworthy/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:17:03 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=8608 As well as visiting Plymouth during family holidays as a child, we always used to spend a day swimming in the river at Hexworthy on Dartmoor. During our recent camping trip to Dartmoor, it was therefore my duty to introduce Morgan to the joys of playing in the river. We went wild swimming at Hexworthy...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/wild-swimming-at-hexworthy/feed/ 1 8608 Tors and Ponies https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/tors-and-poines/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/tors-and-poines/#respond Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:26:31 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=8554 No trip to Dartmoor would be complete without a stop to say hello to the ponies and a climb up the occasional Tor. We therefore made our trip last week complete by doing both. There were ponies everywhere so stopping for a quick ‘hello’ was easy. There were also plenty of tors that looked inviting,...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/tors-and-poines/feed/ 0 8554 Misty Hills https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/misty-hills/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/08/misty-hills/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2011 07:57:34 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=8537 I’ve always liked photos of hills in the mist receding into the distance at sunset – I just never get the opportunity to take photos of them myself, but whilst chilling at the campsite last week the opportunity presented itself, so here’s the view across Dartmoor from our tent.

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