Here's a lovely snap of Vicky in front of the Palace Hotel in Torquay. This was quite something because we were originally booked into a crummy B and B but I decided to cancel and we found a last minute deal in the best hotel in town for less than £60 a night including breakfast (well done e-bookers!) We had excellent weather - look at that blue sky - and we walked up to Babbacombe village up the hill. Now here's a thing - John Babbacombe Lee lived there, the man they couldn't hang. An accused murderer he survived three gruesome attempts at hanging him at Exeter prison and apparently lived another 40 years making a living lecturing about the story of his remarkable escape (was he an ancestor of Stephen King?).
Next shot is off the cliffs at Babbacombe - here she is again looking through the bins at a huge landslip which occurred two or three years ago. The bit at the top left is the remains of a big house that someone had just bought at auction (a bargain I think not!) a few days before they moved in the hillside moved towards the English Channel, if you blow up this photo you might just see bits of furniture among the debris falling down the hill. Lovely views though which explains the high property prices. And a very nice pub overlooking this tragic scene - The Buccaneer (and where are your buccaneers as the actress said?)
So we have to keep on running and on the way back we found a delightful 10K-ish off road gallop near Bristol at Tyntesfield House - a nice evening run round the grounds of this Gothic mansion. The race actually started outside the chapel pictured above (OK it looks more like a mini cathedral!) I got along in 46.50, Vicky was 4th L60 in 75.38 and we were joined by Katie F who followed up her excellent performance with Anton in the Bristol 10K by running a creditable 70.55. Not only that but she fed us on some tasty oriental grub back at their very quiet backstreet house in St George.
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