Day 3 Friday October 21st Tavistock in the rain

 A very wet day in Devon!  From viewing the weather forecast last evening we knew that today was likely to be a washout.  When we woke up it did not look too promising - we could not see the moor through the mist!

We breakfasted and took our waterproofs for an initial walk round some of the rest of the town.  We went to the TIC to see if we could find the details of a short local walk we could attempt later if the weather improved.  A volunteer helper was a lady who used to lived on St Mary's and so we had a brief catchup.  From there we moved to the highly recommended indoor pannier market where we passed a few minutes in the warm and dry.  We then spent another few minutes looking in the shops along Duke Street before deciding it was time for a coffee.  I had bought a newspaper and Christine had some phone admin to complete so we had a dry interlude there.  

Cox Tor is somewhere there

looking south

We went back to the hotel lounge to have a read and discuss further plans for the day as it was now raining heavily.  We did a bit more and then decided to drive up on the moor to see how things were and have a bit of a picnic.  It was still steady/heavy rain and so stopped in the car park below Cox Tor and sat there for quite a time observing a few brave souls (not including us!) venturing out for short walks.  I did take a couple of photos the first looking north up the tor and secondly south over the rain sodden moor.  

watching the footie!

We decided eventually to return back to the hotel for a cup of tea.  Some online browsing and then it was to go to a Pizza restaurant for a prearranged meal, we had eaten here before and were not disappointed again.  We finished in time to go along to a local pub which had Skysports as an attraction and this evening the Ipswich v Derby game was being shown which I could not resist.  Christine took a photo to record the occasion!  Ipswich won😀 and so I was happy.  We then returned to the hotel for the rest of the night.  This had been the wettest day over all the years we had stayed in Tavistock - nearly an inch of rain - we didn't do much outside but the day had a happy ending for me.