July 2: Okehampton Castle, Tintagel Castle, and Port Isaac

 We had high hopes of seeing about 6 different sites today, but instead we saw only 3. I had to accept that we just can't see everything. We first went to Okehampton Castle. It was really interesting. Despite being a ruin, it still had many recognizable areas and I wonder what it would have been like to live in that time period. We spent quite a while there, and then headed for Tintagel Castle on the coast. It was about an hour drive father West. This Castle was on a cliff face. It was also very interesting and we took lots of pictures. As evening approached we wanted to make it to Port Isaac which is where Doc Martin is filmed. We walked along thestreets we'd seen our favorite characters trod. Sunset was beautiful over looking the Bay. As we were eating, seagulls tried to steal or food and we laughed and joked. The funniest part of the day was our ride back to Witheridge. We were using the gps which was telling us to go down little dirt or travel roads that you would not have expected to have been registering as real roads! many of them were more narrow than our drive way at home! This brings me to another point. Since the country is small in comparison to the USA, people here see driving an hour to go somewhere as a great distance. We finally made it back on the"pig paths" sometime after midnight. Pictures are here:  https://plus.google.com/photos/104423898538711271791/albums/60315