What a joy it was to have Bryan and Janet Deacon to stay at Orchard Barn B&B………they booked in several months ahead ostensibly to come and see if they could find some Devon Dippers!!

Well to our absolute delight they not only managed to see several on a variety of different days and locations nearby but also managed to prove it too!!

Er tizz…………….as they say down in these parts!!!

Orchard Barn’s Bridge over River Teign New Year 2011

Oh for the warm Summer weather!!!

This is the Roseland Peninsular Cornwall taken from the Nairs Head on the National Trust Coastal footpath walk……………magic views.

Self Catering Devon – October half term  promotion – Orchard Barn is available throughout the October Half Term holiday at £100 per night with a minimum of 5 nights between Sunday 24th Oct and Wednesday 3rd Nov 2010.

With 4 wonderful bedrooms, 2 x Double en suites with King and Superking size beds and 2 x Single rooms with a shared bathroom and every necessary convenience to use and enjoy this promotional price represents excellent value.

The whole House and Garden complex will be at your disposal for a magic Half Term family holiday…………check out the web site for further details and if you’re interested then do either phone Ian on 01647-252620 or e-mail me on ilfcorner@tiscali.co.uk for further details.

Cheers and warm regards……Ian and Lesley

As Lesley’s son Jamie is a boarder at Mount House School in Tavistock we find ourselves regularly driving passed The Warren House Inn on Dartmoor about halfway between home and school. It’s reputed to have an open log fire which has never been out since the pub opened in 1835 (but I know 2 highly spirited now also former Royal Marines who decided to extinguish it for a laugh some 30 odd years ago and served 2 weeks in Jankers shortly afterwards for their efforts!!!!) – but anyway it serves excellent Real Ales as you would expect, Dartmmor Bitter and Jail Ale from the nearby Princetown brewery…………..just what’s needed!!!

Awaiting opening time at The Warren House Inn

Just a bit further on at Two Bridges is another wonderful ‘Watering Hole’ this time an old coaching house and still a hotel known as The Two Bridges Hotel…again good real ales and another lovely fire (no known RM extinguishers here mind!!!) – makes going to school sound like fun for a change!!

Two Bridges Hotel

Wow – the Two Bridges Hotel former access bridge at dusk – quite magnificent

Dartmoor Bed and Breakfast – Exeter Festival of South West England Food and Drink

Between 9-11 April Exeter Castle mixes the South West’s finest Chefs with lashings of the county’s top quality food and drink. Add 20,000-plus visitors, cheese and wine tastings, fun for the whole family, more than 120 producers and cook for 3 days – don’t miss it!

For one of the best Dartmoor Bed and Breakfast places to stay book in at Orchard Barn Bed and Breakfast  - see for yourself at orchardbarn dot info

Dartmoor Bed and Breakfast, one of the best to stay at on Dartmoor

Dartmoor Bed and Breakfast, Orchard Barn B&B, adjacent famous Dunsford Stepping Stones