{"id":1510,"date":"2022-05-18T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndhop.org\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2022-05-18T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T23:04:05","slug":"day-3-plymouth-to-exeter-via-dartmoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 Plymouth to Exeter via Dartmoor."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bit of an epic today… see below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I stayed over last night with Mark and Jane. Family friends from Plymouth. I hadn’t realised how good a chef Mark was until he basically cooked me 2 meals yesterday evening and full English this morning. As I write its 11 30pm and this morning seems like days ago ! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After Mark helped me sort my rack mounts to stop the squeezing (thanks Mark) I trundled off in the sunshine towards The Hoe and en route spoke with a young lady sat on a large flower pot. I asked her directions initially, then had a brief conversation where i asked her “If she believed in miracles ?” She said “She did sometimes” so I followed up and gave her a trypraying booklet (An initiative we are using in North Devon) I said goodbye and continued towards The Hoe only to pass St Andrews Church right next to the Magistrates Courts where Mary and myself used to work. While there, I felt to give The Lord a worship offering and then met a local chap called Mac. We traded stories and then prayed for each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My objective was still the Hoe and particularly praying about military connections, pride and the family’s hurting from missing loved ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Smeaton’s tower on Plymouth Hoe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My journey then started in ernest (well kind of) I dropped down to the barbican (see below) and then went across the lock of Queen Anne’s Battery (as its known) off towards Caddsdown and then onto Saltram House. I had a lovely ride up through Plymbridge woods to Yelverton on some lovely trails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plymbridge Woods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On arrival in Yelverton it was starting to rain. I met with 2 mutual friends for tea, cake and pray for the community’s on Dartmoor. I then continued up and up and up and up (you get the idea) to Princetown. See short video below from my time riding on Dartmoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A windy dartmoor https:\/\/youtu.be\/0rBEdhUEgfM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well this first section was hard work but the real adventure was still about to start ! I passed Princetown and then it really started to rain. I haid a  choice to make 1. Get on with it for the rest of the afternoon 2. Haul up, put a brew on, sort the tarp and wait for it to pass. I chose the latter. I was cold and wet and could easily have got very unpleasant with minimal spare clothes! I decided to get in my sleeping bag under my tarp and sleep..  within minutes I was out like a light. I awoke an hour later to find the rain had stopped and the sun was breaking through. I stowed all my now wet gear and went to start riding only to find I had a puncture! That fixed, I then headed past Two Bridges and then, Post Bridge and onto Moretonhampstead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My legs were holding up well so I took food in Moretonhampstead only to find an independent Pizza restaurant. (Rude not to! I thought) I then completed the remaining 13 or so miles to Exeter. I was expecting to camp but due to my wet gear I booked myself into a b and b in Exeter to dry my gear out.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big horned cows dartmoor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow Exeter to Bridgewater. Jim <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bit of an epic today… see below I stayed over last night with Mark and Jane. Family friends from Plymouth. I hadn’t realised how good a chef Mark was until he basically cooked me 2 meals yesterday evening and full English this morning. As I write its 11 30pm and this morning seems like days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedalandpray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4acrefarm.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}