Bude
R&R could mean rest and relaxation; regroup and recharge; recuperate and revitalize;… I could go on, but the most apt R&R combo for my day on Bude was reflect and replenish.
Reflect is self-evident, but the replenish was fun and deserves a bit of attention.
It started with an enourmous B&B breakfast, served by the indomitable Martin. To all his queries regarding wishing for more, I generally said yes. Actually, it probably started with the fish and chips the night before, but I hadn’t been able to finish that enormous serving. Anyway…breakfast done, I considered a digestive sleep, but instead gathered my energy and set off back up the swcp over one up, to the next down where rumour had it a lady in a caravan made the most spectacular cream teas. You all thought I’d been deprived, right? So wrong…
Margaret’s Ristic Tea Shop, mmmm
After that deliciousness, I hiked back over the up and down to Bude town where I mooched around in the crafty stores and wandered up the canal towpath a ways, chatting with a few of the ultra-serious fishermen with their boxes of colour-coded maggots and corn mush. Not mmmmm.
Next came lunch at the Falcon Inn. Roast lamb with mint sauce and Yorkshire pud (special addition at my request). All washed down with a local ale that I was promised tasted apricotty. Mmmmm
The rest of the day I seem to have been in a food-induced fugue state. Got absolutely nothing done. Bliss!
Stats: 15750 steps; 53 floors; 10.93 km
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