Date: 20180702
Stay: Cherubs Nest B&B, Dartmouth
Activities
And another rest day today, in Dartmouth this time. The last two rest days I was lucky because they had a laundry service in the hotel where I stayed. Today I have to go to the launderette myself, but I’m lucky again. The woman that runs the launderette offers to do the laundry for me (against payment of course). No problem, I like that. Now I do not have to stay in the launderette until everything is ready.
Instead, I explore Dartmouth a bit and visit the tourist information to see what there is to do. There are possibilities to make a boat trip, That might be something for the afternoon.
But first I’m going to get the laundry again and then I eat a soup in a pub, with a pint of course. After lunch I go to the quay and am just on time to board the paddle wheel boat that will make a ‘cruise’ of about one hour over the river Dart. First a bit in the direction of the sea to the estuary and then quite a bit upstream, past the house where Agatha Christie lived (Greenway House).
After the boat trip I visit two more pubs. One because there is a nice big terrace overlooking the river and the other because it is the oldest pub in Dartmouth.
The photos and the GPX track of today are all from the boat trip.
All in all a nice quiet rest day!
Weather
Sunny but not too hot.
Lyric of the day
A boat trip across the river today. As lyrics of the day Take Me To The River by the Talking Heads:
I don’t know why I love her like I do
All the changes you put me through
Take my money, my cigarettes
I haven’t seen the worst of it yet
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Take me to the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why you treat me so bad
Think of all the things we could have had
Love is an ocean that I can’t forget
My sweet sixteen I would never regret
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river, drop me in the water
Push me in the river, dip me in the water
Washing me down, washing me
Hug me, squeeze me, love me, tease me
Till I can’t, till I can’t, till I can’t take no more of it
Take me to the water, drop me in the river
Push me in the water, drop me in the river
Washing me down, washing me down
I don’t know why I love you like I do
All the troubles you put me through
Sixteen candles there on my wall
And here am I the biggest fool of them all
I wanna know that you’ll tell me
I love to stay
Take me to the river and drop me in the water
Dip me in the river, drop me in the water
Washing me down, washing me down.
