Killerton Park Music Room
We partake of breakfast and then before departing survey a little more of Lympstone Manor – we visit the pool and the pool house – all of which looks beautiful. We also see more of the statues and other sculptures and art installations round the hotel – all of which looks very lovely. We see a tennis court and see signs for a croquet lawn – so no doubt catering for a wide variety of tastes.
The car decides this morning that it will talk with a female voice – which has been changed from the usual male voice without human intervention. Also at one point it gives an instruction to go to one destination – which I spot on an overhead sign – so get in that lane – but she then starts recalculating as I am not on the route she anticipated! A little later I am following the brown signs to our first destination – but then I am told to turn off to the left – but there is an extra left turn whilst the real route is straight ahead. The turning I have taken proves to be a dead end. I am not a happy bunny at this point. The male voice was re-instated later.
We eventually get to Killerton Park and once parked we head to the house and find that our timing is perfect as the main house is about to open. We will not be doing the grounds today as we walked far enough yesterday. After a brief introduction we are encouraged to go upstairs first. On the first floor there is an extensive fashion collection from the 1920’s which makes for something different and then downstairs they are showing the house as it would have been in the same time period first with the music room. Then a little way round a corner there is a room setup for dancing the Charleston which then leads to a library for a quiet time later in the evening when a breather might be needed. Finally the dining room is laid up for breakfast to enable the guests to recover after the excesses the night before. All rather well done and with the usual room guides filling in details for visitors.
Killerton Park Breakfast
As we arrived a herd of cattle were being let out into one of the fields and whilst I am not sure they were skipping as they went they were certainly going faster than normal cow walking pace and the three leading animals could be seen heading across to the far side of the field which the herd had been put in and it looked as if they were assessing the eating available, the shade (it is another warm day) and would later be reporting back to the remainder of the herd later.
We now return to the M5 briefly and the A30 through Cornwall. It is some years since I have been this way and until we turn off at Bodmin it is now all dual carriageway and I note at least one section I can tell is new and elsewhere it certainly seems that it flows better than I remember. However although I drove to Launceston a few years ago to visit the railway we have not been deeper into Cornwall. I had anticipated having to ignore the satnav to head into Bodmin to find a supermarket but somehow the man (we hit it with a hammer, found the right setting and got rid of that terrible woman) seemed to know that I wanted to go into Bodmin and was telling me to turn off at the right turning – and luckily Aldi was right where it needed to be for Jackie to do some shopping.
We then proceeded onto Piran Meadows through the middle of Bodmin which was not quite the preferred route, having been advised that our caravan is available earlier than expected so can go straight in. Goods put away. Cases unpacked and then it is time to use the hot tub for the first time this evening.
Hopefully a better night’s sleep tonight.