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Travel Blogs from South Molton
Floods in the UK
... the UK will experience severe flooding more frequently as climate change takes hold. The floods have severely disrupted people's lives and will cost the economy millions of pounds – highlighting the foolishness of the chancellor's insistence in only talking about the costs of tackling climate change. The UK government must stop dragging its feet on decarbonising our economy and show global ...
West country rellie-bashing
... getting our fill of all the breakfast classics, we headed off on a walk to Porlock. We made our way through hedgerow-lined footpaths, through beautiful tiny villages and along the sea. Porlock Weir is just past Porlock and by the sea with a cute little harbor. It took about 2 and a quarter hours and our final destination was an ancient pub where we phoned Tanzie for a ride back. According to Nana and Poppy, no trip to England is complete without cream tea ...
Reunited cousin love!
We met Uncle David (Poppy's brother) at the train station in Bristol and rode the train with him to Taunton, where we got in his car and drove to his house and met his partner, Pru. We had a drink there and then drove to Tanzie and Rich's house for a dinner party!! (Tanzie is Uncle David's daughter, Mum's cousin, Rich is her ...
St. Audries Bay
... Mattins Service. I had not attended a morning prayer service in years so it was a very different experience. There was a choir of four and two clergy and it was a choral service. The focus of the service was on the harvest and the hymns were familiar to us and they were the ones that we use at Thanksgiving. We attended the coffee hour and talked with one of the choir ...
Exeter and South
... the screen. I said that all but one of the human carvings had no heads.
Then he told us that Exeter was bombed in WW II and the bomb destroyed the chapel on the opposite side of the quire, and the screen had suffered the effects of the blast. The decision to leave the screen as it was, was based upon the desire to let ...
Other places to stay in South Molton
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The George Hotel
1 Broad St, South Molton | 2 star hotelfrom $128
