Tuesday, June 14, 2011

In the Dartmoor National Park

Our last day was so wonderful. Today morning we drove from Bournemouth to the Dartmoor National Park. The nature, all the animals, flowers and plants were really beautiful. We arrived at 10 am after a 2 and a half hour drive. After arriving we ate something and then we explored the park. We had the selection between walking, cycling, riding and climbing. Also we could do geocaching. We decided to ride horses. We rode 3 hours and we saw so much of the park. Some people live there in the park in little villages. You can also live for a few days there on a camping place.
On our tour we didn’t see everything. We rode on bridleways through villages and over grassland and have seen wonderful places of nature.
If you want to walk, you can walk where you want. You needn’t go on the ways and streets. But (, but) you aren’t allowed to go to 16% of the park, because this is protected.
Dartmoor was very nice, but we also wanted also to see some of Plymouth. We arrived at 4 pm. We went to our hotel and checked in. After that we looked for the Smeaton's Tower and we found it. It is the most notable Eddystone Lighthouse. The building was finished in August 1759 and since 1884 you can visit it. We visited the Lighthouse and we could see the beautiful places of Plymouth. The view of the beach is so wonderful and after enjoying it we went down to the beach and spend our evening there.

Tomorrow we’re going to fly home. Now that is the end of our journey. We really enjoyed it and we would do it every time again. We hope you learned something about the south coast of England and enjoyed to read our blog.

We say good night from Plymouth and we will see you tomorrow evening for the last time.