What We Did Last Week: 3

[poliphilo]

The next day (Wednesday) it rained and rained and rained- and the car got filthy from bumping over unimportant Exmoor roads. We were going to Ilfracombe, where we had  booked into a dispiriting family hotel which Ailz immediately christened "Lurch's Place". Actually it wasn't so bad; there was a time when all English hotels were similarly dank and gloomy. Besides, it was cheap.

Ilfracombe is lively- and the north Devon coast spectacular. The Landmark Theatre - which is built to look like a couple of sandcastles side by side- has a cafe where they serve really good sandwiches.

in the evening the sun came out and we drove along the coast and were glad we'd come after all.

Comments

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I like the green hills by the water. Lovely!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's Hele Bay. I don't know how that's pronounced. It could be Heel or Hella or even Healey.

[jourdannex.livejournal.com]

OH this is beautiful! I want to show my mother this picture, she has never seen the English coast but has a very strong attachment to it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

All that part of the coast is coves and cliffs and ragged rocks. Very spectacular!

[sovay]

Thank you for the Devon coast. Especially with the setting light on it; it's beautiful.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It was a magical evening- an hour of sunshine after a perfectly filthy day.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that's beautiful! And I'd say that the coastal light more than made up for the hotel's darkness.
I like the slant of the hills very much and the green and earth and sea contrast. Beautifully composed photo!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

The hotel wasn't really so bad- just "old-fashioned". :)

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Stop posting these pretty pictures, you're making me homesick.