Visit of RC Wiveliscombe - Sunday

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4x4We were expected at Tony and Jenny Hoyle for coffee on Sunday morning, but it was more like second breakfast. Evidently, they did not want us to hunger. Nevertheless, the important thing was that there were about six owners of 4x4s, with whom we should have gone the Exmoor National Park.

The expedition, although OK otherwise, was a little embarrassing for me. I, like a fool, expected a real off road expedition, as I knew from the Off Road Club, but except of one creek crossing we did not go anywhere, where a normal passenger car would not get.
It was cold that day, windy, and it rained in places, so it was good that we spent most of the time in the cars. The Exmoor Park is interesting, but more for car seeing than a walk. We had lunch in place that is called Tarr Farm and that is very popular. Luckily, we had a small saloon with fireplace going reserved. It was so cold that the fireplace was almost more important than food.

ChaloupkaWe continued on until we got to the place called Selworthy. It is several hundred of years old, three little cottages with thatched roofs lost in the middle of woods. It looks like in a fairy tale. There is a coffee house in one cottage, where we planned a snack called the Cream tea. English were making fun of us since morning, when they found out that we did not know what it was. They told us not to eat that this was real solid stuff, that we would be surprised, that they felt sorry for us ... Lot of talk, but nobody let out that it was not tea, but cake. Cream tea is something like a stuffed cake without stuffing, then you spread cream (fairly rich one, too) and marmalade over it and eat it. I heartily recommend it to everyone, it is good.

Before we came back to Wiveliscombe, it was an evening; we were tired and had about an hour for a shower and a rest, because after it the evening buffet started. Luckily, it was at the Kellets, so we did not have to drive anywhere, all we had to do was to go downstairs.

At night, after everybody left, I stayed by a fireplace and watched dying embers and drank a glass of whisky. It was a beautiful ending of a beautiful day.