That is very sweet of you to say! Thank you so much! I am finishing up a good video for tomorrow. It is another Cornwall vlog of probably the most gorgeous place we went! I also spent time going through all of the photos and videos from the rest of our British trip to plan my upload schedule. It turns out I have enough material to continue doing travel vlogs through April! We are anxious to return to Britain, but definitely need to sort things out with getting vaccinated, and are hoping the infection rates improve in the coming months!🙏 Wishing you a healthy and safe new year! It’s kind of nice to sit here in the winter and have lovely video of sunny days to edit rather than being there now trudging around in the cold grey wet weather😂
This video should be shown to all Americans, so often you hear Americans say that food in the UK is bland and boring and we have got a bad reputation, mainly from Americans, but the UK does some great food and has got some awesome locations to eat in. Country pubs and tea rooms and cafés can be a haven for locally produced gastronomic delights with some of the best ingredients in the world. What a lovely video!
Why thank you so much! Of course, I think all Americans should watch this video too, LOL! Seriously, British food is a major theme on my channel because I love it so much. So stay tuned for lots more food videos. I include delicious food in all our travel vlogs. And we ate at some wonderful places this summer... so that will all be featured in upcoming vids! Cheers! XX Dara
I spent a white Christmas in Lustleigh about 15 years ago and stayed in the thatched cottage your big white arrow pointed at. The local children made drunken snowman complete with an empty bottle of wine lying on the steps of stone cross and the Cleave was most hospitable. Thanks for the memories as Mr Hope would say.
OH MY GOONESS!!!! I absolutely love that story, and the fact that you spent Christmas in Lustleigh. I have to say that to an American Anglophile, a white Christmas in Lustleigh sounds absolutely ideal!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Driving through those lanes in the snow was certainly a challenge. On Boxing Day the village organised a plastic duck race along the local river . Sadly, none if our ducks won a prize. The local kids put a lot if effort into capturing every duck afterwards leaving no plastic pollution behind.. Great fun.
Always the best when you find a great place to eat without any preplanning! The lunch looked Devine like you were eating in a friends garden! Pure British Bliss!!!!!
Yes, our favourite pub in the Cotswolds (future video will show that gem!) is also at the end of a white knuckle ride! We tend to forget the awful drive once we get to the lovely destination and eat a delicious meal. If I hadn't have filmed this road I would have forgotten it as well, LOL!
I know from experience those small country lanes are terrifying to drive down, quite often the passenger is the first to see oncoming traffic when the hedges are high. I love old villages with ancient buildings, in my teens I lived in a cottage that was built in the 17th century. The worst thing for me as a tall person was the low ceilings, and having to duck to go through doors. I appreciate you not being a loud American tourist Dara :P
Honestly, I do feel like a tall, loud, brash American... so I try to use my whisper voice and no selfie stick so as not to be TOO obtrusive! haha How awesome that you lived in a 17th century cottage! Ian's mum used to live in a 400 year old home as well. Such lovely history!! But alas, there are drawbacks. Now you know why we didn't buy a cottage IN the Cotswolds. I was a prima donna who wanted more than one bathroom, and no low beamed ceilings or doorways! I'm a tall female human, and I hate bashing my cranium on those lovely ancient wooden beams! Have you seen the tour of our Cheltenham flat? We were lucky enough to get a comfortable place NEAR the Cotswolds, though it is not as old as the legit Cotswolds cottages.
@@MagentaOtterTravels I've watched all of your videos, and yes low beams in ceilings and low doorways are painful on the head (I hit mine many times). My mother was small so she was ok, I'm 6'2" and my father was 6'4", so we both had to duck or end up swearing :-)
So I use EpidemicSound for all my music. When looking for "churchy" music for this video I found this track with a strange name that was not in English. I started listening to the song and realised it was Abide with Me! I actually love that hymn, and we sing it regularly. I find it very peaceful and reverent, but not a dirge. Although I was showing war graves at that point... so a somber song is not entirely inappropriate, I guess.
@@MagentaOtterTravels perfectly ok with me, kinda fitted in with the story and video at that point, I only hear it at football FA Cup finals and funerals
It looked a lovely place Dara & Ian... And yes that food looked so good too. I must admit, i'm a bit of a sucker for quiet little villages like that. I have fond memories of villages like this in North Norfolk, like Happisburgh pronounced (“Haze-bruh”) or Wells-next-the-Sea, and the wonderful Fish & Chip Shops, as well as the fresh seafood stall in the harbour car park. I have such lovely family holiday memories. I just seem to de-stress completely while sitting on the harbour wall, simply watching the world go by. Breathing in that intoxicating salty sea air. I wish i were there now. 😉
I could not agree with you more!!! We all need to take a minute in the midst of this cold, dark winter of pandemic to mentally visit a seaside bench on a lovely summer afternoon. Imagine that we are eating fish & chips from the best local chippy... and hope that there are no demonic seagulls within sight! Thanks for your lovely comment, Rick!
That sounds nice, I'm really a fan of seafood as long as it is cooked. Remember being given pickled cockles as a child at a Butlins in Wales and not enjoying the experience. We definitely need to fit Norfolk into one of our future trips.
@@ians3586 The Butlins in Wales you visited Ian, was probably Pwllheli. That particular one was sold off in 1990, and is currently run as a Haven Holidays site. Yes, the seafood stall sells the most delicious fresh Crab... Lobster... Cockles... Mussels... Periwinkles... etc. All fresh and caught locally. It's such a lovely place to relax and unwind. Hope you both enjoyed the video clip i posted. Cheers Ian. 😉
We were eating a very late lunch, because that day we had already spent 2 hours feeding otters and another hour or two hiking Canonteign... so by the time we ate lunch it was nearly 2:30 or 3:00! Hence, the place was not crowded and we got the table with the best view! Lucky duckies indeed!
I was watching your vlog on English breakfasts. This vlog brings back so many memories. I was born in Bovey Tracey. We used to walk to Lustleigh along the old railway tracks. Shame the Cleave wasn’t serving. I’ve enjoyed more than a few in there. Thanks for the memories 😘🇺🇸🏴🏴
What a charming village and a tea room too! One of those pinch me moments, I am sure. Oh, those narrow roads! We had a few close calls travel out the countryside. One involved a lorry speeding around a bend in the road, not knowing we were approaching. Our coach driver squeezed off the road as far as he could and the lorry flew past with about 6 inches between him and us. It took some minutes for the chatter to resume.......After a British expletive, the coach driver asked if we were all awake! Another one was not so frightening but quite amusing. We met up with someone driving a full-size Chevy pickup truck. Odd to see that over there! He had to back up a way to let us past. Pleasant memories,
I know exactly what you are talking about... the locals seem to drive those narrow curvy roads and high speeds, brushing past other vehicles with a few millimetres of clearance, without batting an eye! They must have nerves of steel! Not me... LOL!
It was SO beautiful. I gave thanks EVERY DAY that we had lovely weather that allowed us to eat outside and enjoy places like this! What a blessing. We were so fortunate to be there when the weather was lovely and the infection rate was low enough that places were open for business. VERY LUCKY!
If I had been having that lunch at your Lustleigh tearoom, I think I would feel like I'd died and gone to heaven. What bliss!! And Ian, I have to laugh at your comment written here, about the leaf blower. Dara had such nice background music to her video, and everything seemed so perfect, that I thought the leaf blower sound was HERE, at one of my neighbor's houses!! Obviously, it did not spoil my enjoyment of your heavenly lunch.
Oh that is SO FUNNY Bobby... You thought the leaf blower was outside your house, haha! Yes, honestly I pretty much wanted to stay at that tea room and eat there the rest of my life. They had these amazing baked goods as well... but we were too full from the lovely lunch I didn't get to eat any of the desserts!
Yes, we are so nervous on those windy little roads! Is your husband Mr. Nerves of Steel since he is an expert driver? That village was so pretty, and the tea room so ideal! I was surprised to have a quiche with blackberries in it, but it was actually so tasty!
@@MagentaOtterTravels it sounded to me like a lawn mower, though it may be any garden implement, so easily picked up by microphones to sound louder than they seemed at the time. Your voice came across clear and gentle, which seemed much more in keeping with the surroundings.
Still waiting for you to discover your perfect Cornish Pasty...My guess is you're saving that one up! You've certainly got Ian well-trained...he looks pleased to see you as you approach the table :-) And yes it's certainly a very pretty little place... Dave
The question is, was Ian smiling at me, or smiling for the camera?! Call don’t worry, there is an upcoming episode called Pasty Quest which will answer your question about our search for delicious pasties! Bear with me while I take donkeys years editing all this footage into nice little videos! 😆
She definitely has me trained. I know that if I want a pleasant holiday I need to be cooperative, which includes trying any of the Nasty Pasties we came across in Cornwall.
A great little video, it makes a change to see tourists videos showing that England is much more than London and fish and chips . And even better for me because I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up in Princetown on dartmoor 15 or so miles from Lustleigh.
Oh, nice! This coming Friday our vlog is about Dartmoor... including some wild ponies! Yes, you won't find many videos on my channel about London. But there will be one about fish & chips in the next month or so... showing some grew dinners we had in South Devon and North Devon seaside towns.
We have traveled all over the UK, and Lustleigh was one of our favorite places. I believe some of those thatched homes are 1500 years old !! We also had a delightful visit and lunch at the Primrose Cafe !
@@MagentaOtterTravels Was doing some RUclips surfing of UK places and came across this video ... I am in New York State USA and have visited the UK many times for both work and vacation as my wife has family there.
@@gimme789 awesome! Nice to meet you! My husband and I live in Texas. We have been to England together over 20 times, because he has family there as well. We actually bought a flat in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire! We are hoping to spend the summer there, but waiting to see how things go ... I hope you subscribe and stick around. It’s fun to hear the perspective of other Americans who have traveled to Britain quite a lot😉. Cheers! XX Dara
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What a wonderful video, I loved this. Thank You for sharing this beautiful quaint village of Lustleigh. I would love to visit here in my travels. :)!!!
Oh, I do hope you make it to Lustleigh! It is not a tourist trap... just a lovely wee village! And there are so many amazing places to visit around there. I just hope you are OK with driving on narrow roads ;-) heehee
Roads are serpentine because the fields on either side needed enough space for an ox and plough to turn. The large trees you see occasionally are field boundary markers, the one between Devon and Somerset is particularly large. Not all the hedgerows are tall, quite often the roads are so old, they’ve worn down until banks of earth are up on either side. Recently (about 100 years ago) the roads have been covered in tarmac, so they should stop going low. Occasionally you may spot a fingerpost sign on a red post, that is said to be either where hanged people are buried, or rest stops for prisoners being transported (and guards were illiterate). I used to pick local wildflowers to leave there but now I just say a poem.
Oh my word... I have never heard about the fingerpost signs on red posts. That is awful! Part of our "Horrible Histories" I suppose. I think that is lovely that you say a poem and think of flowers. Beautiful.
Why thank you so much, kind sir! I hope you subscribe and stick around for our continued adventures. I'm currently publishing vlogs of our trip through Northumberland, and Yorkshire is coming up. But following that there will be Wales, and a big series on the Cotswolds. I hope you join the fun! Also, I want to make sure you saw this video from Dartmoor... and area we REALLY love: ruclips.net/video/EpyTHqRWUOE/видео.html Cheers! XX Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes subscribed and clicked on bell , been going through them this morning sat outside in the sun. Will do the rest tomorrow morning. Thanks for the enjoyment you've given me .
Looking at other comments about the road, it looked like you have enough space, you still had your side mirrors out, time to worry when you're touching both sides with your mirrors folded in 🙈🙏
@@MagentaOtterTravels always fully insured, no excess where possible for peace of mind, Ian your champion chauffeur, I got to drive in Florida, nice big open wide roads and still got wing mirror clipped by a truck
I was trying to figure out how Abide With Me could be coming from the church ... it’s a favourite of mine 🙂 That lunch looks amazing. Goat cheese quiche? Carrot soup with cheese scone? Delish! 😋😋😋
YES! I love Abide with Me as well! Funny story behind me getting that track... I get all my music from Epidemic Sound. I was searching for churchy music and found this one called "Bliv Kvar Hos Mig" ... having no idea what it was, I clicked and played it. I discovered it was Abide with Me, and that seemed to fit the mood of this video. I was chuffed! And yes, the lunch was ah-mazing. I basically wish I could eat lunch there every day for the rest of my life. LOL
Crazy name... reminds me that I need to watch your latest video! I haven't watched anything in days and I need to catch up! We haven't even turned on the telly here in our flat yet and I haven't watched anything on my phone or laptop. It's been complete chaos so far... hoping to get a little quarantine boredom yet! haha
@@MagentaOtterTravels ...I know a few of my uncles neighbours in Beer, Devon that shoot off to the Bahamas, Spain and many places in the Caribbean during the winter months ....they must of had a good summer 🤷😆
`Reversed half a mile ? " The Patron Saint of the Road is not an Englishman, but St. Sebastian de Mexico. Alas, ma`am you`ll find few Saints on our roads. But fair play to that chap that had the grace give over.
Sorry, I am prone to exaggeration... it was nowhere near half a mile. But because we are so uncomfortable "backing up" (as we say in the states) it seemed like a long way! LOL But to see the lovely Lustleigh it was well worth it!!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Heck, Mrs Magenta, no need for you to apologise to me. If you are prepared to sojourn our horrid roads by and in mechanical contraptions fair play to you. I wish you farewwell amidst the to and fro. If I could escape it I would, and have absolutely no idea why you endure it. Are you barking ?
A thoroughly delightful video, but may I correct one small error? You make reference to Commonwealth War Graves, but the graves you indicate are not the Commonwealth War Graves. The war graves will date from post First World War and WW2 and there are likely to be just a very small number as most of the war graves will be found abroad, especially in Belgium and France, but also the Middle and Far East. The Commonwealth War Graves have headstones of a particular uniform pattern and are inscribed with name and regiment as well as the date of death. In a country churchyard you would probably need to search round to locate them. I thought you would like to know this.
Thank you so much for clarifying and explaining! As you may have noticed, I had no idea what I was talking about in that part of the video! 😂 I am way outside my comfort zone when I discuss history, and definitely wars! I try to make sure I get my facts straight, but when I am talking off the cuff like I was there, it’s pretty dangerous! Sometimes I think I should just take the talking about food 🙄... but seriously, I appreciate your comment and I hope you subscribe and stick around for some of our other adventures. Feel free to correct me because I do enjoy learning!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you for taking the trouble to read and reply. I have subscribed to your channel and have been very impressed with what I have seen so far. I just had to correct you about the Commonwealth War Graves Commission whose work I so admire. They continue to care for the war graves worldwide. Even now remains are often found in France and Belgium. Using forensic techniques they try where possible to identify them and give them a proper burial at the most appropriate CWGC cemetery. The most likely reason for the U.K. CWGC Graves would be for the repatriated wounded who subsequently died from wounds. I have just checked the CWGC website and discovered that there are over 170,000 CWGC graves in U.K. cemeteries.
I keep hoping that one day we'll get used to it like "the locals"... but it hasn't happened yet. I've been editing footage for next Friday's video of a wee village we love in Gloucestershire called Sheepscombe. The roads terrify us every time we drive there... but once you are there, it is SO worth it! haha
the depth of the lanes is testament to their age. The older they are, the lower from the field level they are, some are thought to be over 1000 years old and have been worn down through generations of use
Nices video. We have similar villages near to me - less the thatched roofs - that is more of a Devon/Somerset feature of UK buildings. Not so sure you got the Commonwealth War Graves photo correct. War graves are usually rectangular in shape and white in colour. See www.cwgc.org/ for examples. Happy to be corrected though.
Thank you for your comment. I was lectured about this in my first month of having a RUclips channel two years ago... and I have been SO aware of it ever since. Literally EVERY American Anglophile I know says "cute" or "quaint" when they talk about the British things they love (Cotswold villages, thatched houses, red phone boxes, etc etc etc). I have painstakingly tried to avoid saying those on video... what did I say in this one? I forget because it was over a year ago. Note: no Americans say "twee" ... that is a British word. If I said it in this video I was TRYING to sound British. So if I offended in doing so, that is doubly disappointing! Cheers Dara
I don't know that we will go back South this year. We are heading NORTH to Scotland and Yorkshire to visit old and new friends first. This summer our plans are still very up in the air because we don't know if our friends and family (who have flights booked already) will even be able to come... the US needs to get off the Amber list!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Did you have any problems getting through customs? I heard talk about very long waiting times ...
@@MagentaOtterTravels some counties are no go if all they have to offer is this.....but I do find that The more difficult journeys are the best destinations....as they are the most unspoilt..
@@david-lt9wj We totally agree! Our favorite pub in the Cotswolds is at the end of a pretty treacherous nerve-racking drive. We just endure the narrow roads and celebrate when we get to an A road! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels exackly....one of the places I love is aberystwyth....and it's great and I want The M54 to continue through Shrewsbury onwards to aberystwyth....but I know the charm would go... If I didn't have to struggle through those mountain passes...and I had to start worrying about lorries doing the ton on my tail...the same goes for Bude....it involves 20 miles of chicanery....before I can stroll down the strand..parfait ! Hartland point is another example..
Haha those Dartmoor roads scare us and I’m easily motion sick on curvy roads… also, I might have adjusted the film speed? I don’t remember, since I did this video a year ago. But come on… wasn’t that a pretty village?!
I am deeply in love with Devon. You are just too spoiled to realise how beautiful it all is! 😂. To see my Texas neighborhood, watch this video with some drone footage: ruclips.net/video/KNJcnTqvAfk/видео.html
Please come back as soon as you can, and post some more vids. I've watched them all now, and I'm experiencing withdrawal symptoms!
That is very sweet of you to say! Thank you so much! I am finishing up a good video for tomorrow. It is another Cornwall vlog of probably the most gorgeous place we went! I also spent time going through all of the photos and videos from the rest of our British trip to plan my upload schedule. It turns out I have enough material to continue doing travel vlogs through April!
We are anxious to return to Britain, but definitely need to sort things out with getting vaccinated, and are hoping the infection rates improve in the coming months!🙏
Wishing you a healthy and safe new year!
It’s kind of nice to sit here in the winter and have lovely video of sunny days to edit rather than being there now trudging around in the cold grey wet weather😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you and Happy New Year to you all.
@@manfredwilliams9762 here’s to better days in 2021!
This video should be shown to all Americans, so often you hear Americans say that food in the UK is bland and boring and we have got a bad reputation, mainly from Americans, but the UK does some great food and has got some awesome locations to eat in. Country pubs and tea rooms and cafés can be a haven for locally produced gastronomic delights with some of the best ingredients in the world.
What a lovely video!
Why thank you so much! Of course, I think all Americans should watch this video too, LOL!
Seriously, British food is a major theme on my channel because I love it so much. So stay tuned for lots more food videos. I include delicious food in all our travel vlogs. And we ate at some wonderful places this summer... so that will all be featured in upcoming vids!
Cheers! XX Dara
I spent a white Christmas in Lustleigh about 15 years ago and stayed in the thatched cottage your big white arrow pointed at. The local children made drunken snowman complete with an empty bottle of wine lying on the steps of stone cross and the Cleave was most hospitable. Thanks for the memories as Mr Hope would say.
OH MY GOONESS!!!! I absolutely love that story, and the fact that you spent Christmas in Lustleigh. I have to say that to an American Anglophile, a white Christmas in Lustleigh sounds absolutely ideal!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Driving through those lanes in the snow was certainly a challenge. On Boxing Day the village organised a plastic duck race along the local river
. Sadly, none if our ducks won a prize. The local kids put a lot if effort into capturing every duck afterwards leaving no plastic pollution behind.. Great fun.
I'd love to be able to take photos or video of Lustleigh in the snow.
@@ians3586
Not sure if this will work but fingers crossed. www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/LG34KBahDmtSzK6LkRE9jgmMxvOP74EyhjmhDoco0C1
Photo taken at Church Gateway not the Cross as I said earlier. LOL
Haha, I love that you're whispering so that you don't come across as a loud American RUclipsr!! You certainly don't come across that way ... ever!!
Oh what an utterly beautiful place! My goodness, there are some true hidden gems in the world...
Your lunch looked so fresh and nicely made too.
Absolutely! Lovely place and fabulous lunch. So glad Ian decided we should visit that village!
Always the best when you find a great place to eat without any preplanning! The lunch looked Devine like you were eating in a friends garden! Pure British Bliss!!!!!
Yes, it was blissful! 💕
What a beautiful place, real picture post card stuff. Well worth the 'white Knuckle ride' of the old, English country lanes eh.
Yes, our favourite pub in the Cotswolds (future video will show that gem!) is also at the end of a white knuckle ride! We tend to forget the awful drive once we get to the lovely destination and eat a delicious meal. If I hadn't have filmed this road I would have forgotten it as well, LOL!
I know from experience those small country lanes are terrifying to drive down, quite often the passenger is the first to see oncoming traffic when the hedges are high. I love old villages with ancient buildings, in my teens I lived in a cottage that was built in the 17th century. The worst thing for me as a tall person was the low ceilings, and having to duck to go through doors. I appreciate you not being a loud American tourist Dara :P
Honestly, I do feel like a tall, loud, brash American... so I try to use my whisper voice and no selfie stick so as not to be TOO obtrusive! haha
How awesome that you lived in a 17th century cottage! Ian's mum used to live in a 400 year old home as well. Such lovely history!! But alas, there are drawbacks. Now you know why we didn't buy a cottage IN the Cotswolds. I was a prima donna who wanted more than one bathroom, and no low beamed ceilings or doorways! I'm a tall female human, and I hate bashing my cranium on those lovely ancient wooden beams! Have you seen the tour of our Cheltenham flat? We were lucky enough to get a comfortable place NEAR the Cotswolds, though it is not as old as the legit Cotswolds cottages.
@@MagentaOtterTravels I've watched all of your videos, and yes low beams in ceilings and low doorways are painful on the head (I hit mine many times). My mother was small so she was ok, I'm 6'2" and my father was 6'4", so we both had to duck or end up swearing :-)
Oh my. The garden is so pretty!!!!!
It was! Did you enjoy my Hawaiian girl in England look?? Lol
Magenta Otter Travels yes!!! Mahalos for doing that! 🌺
Funnily enough I once worked near by at Bovey Tracey, I get around 😉
Yes, you most certainly do!
I always associated 'Abide With Me' as a funeral hymn 🙏
So I use EpidemicSound for all my music. When looking for "churchy" music for this video I found this track with a strange name that was not in English. I started listening to the song and realised it was Abide with Me! I actually love that hymn, and we sing it regularly. I find it very peaceful and reverent, but not a dirge. Although I was showing war graves at that point... so a somber song is not entirely inappropriate, I guess.
@@MagentaOtterTravels perfectly ok with me, kinda fitted in with the story and video at that point, I only hear it at football FA Cup finals and funerals
Ever been to a FA cup final mate?😀👌👌.
@@tonywilkinson6895 no, only an armchair supporter, in 1976 and 2003 🙂👍,
(Google search required Dara😉)
Especially reverse parking
Oh yeahhhhh... we DREAD that!
It looked a lovely place Dara & Ian... And yes that food looked so good too. I must admit, i'm a bit of a sucker for quiet little villages like that. I have fond memories of villages like this in North Norfolk, like Happisburgh pronounced (“Haze-bruh”) or Wells-next-the-Sea, and the wonderful Fish & Chip Shops, as well as the fresh seafood stall in the harbour car park. I have such lovely family holiday memories. I just seem to de-stress completely while sitting on the harbour wall, simply watching the world go by. Breathing in that intoxicating salty sea air. I wish i were there now. 😉
I could not agree with you more!!! We all need to take a minute in the midst of this cold, dark winter of pandemic to mentally visit a seaside bench on a lovely summer afternoon. Imagine that we are eating fish & chips from the best local chippy... and hope that there are no demonic seagulls within sight! Thanks for your lovely comment, Rick!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I'll put a link to a short video of Wells-next-the-Sea below... 😉
ruclips.net/video/rHfpzLy8tjE/видео.html
That sounds nice, I'm really a fan of seafood as long as it is cooked. Remember being given pickled cockles as a child at a Butlins in Wales and not enjoying the experience. We definitely need to fit Norfolk into one of our future trips.
@@ians3586 The Butlins in Wales you visited Ian, was probably Pwllheli. That particular one was sold off in 1990, and is currently run as a Haven Holidays site. Yes, the seafood stall sells the most delicious fresh Crab... Lobster... Cockles... Mussels... Periwinkles... etc. All fresh and caught locally. It's such a lovely place to relax and unwind. Hope you both enjoyed the video clip i posted. Cheers Ian. 😉
During lunch everything was perfect and peaceful...... except for the leaf blower!
He is a 87 years young local and been doing that since he was a small boy, no one knows why for sure. Even he can't remember! ;-)
I thought it sounded like a strimmer
@@mauricecasey5556 that made me smile! haha
@@mauricecasey5556 good one. Needed a laugh this morning!
@@wencireone it probably was. I actually haven't seen many leaf blowers in the UK.
He had to reverse for a half mile 😱I am adoring everything about that lunch
You would have loved it! 😋
I looked on maps and am able to go into the garden area, it looked like you managed to get the best seat in the garden area too, which was lucky 👍
We were eating a very late lunch, because that day we had already spent 2 hours feeding otters and another hour or two hiking Canonteign... so by the time we ate lunch it was nearly 2:30 or 3:00! Hence, the place was not crowded and we got the table with the best view! Lucky duckies indeed!
@@MagentaOtterTravels wow you really smashed the day for videos, great work 👏 👍
I was watching your vlog on English breakfasts. This vlog brings back so many memories. I was born in Bovey Tracey. We used to walk to Lustleigh along the old railway tracks.
Shame the Cleave wasn’t serving. I’ve enjoyed more than a few in there.
Thanks for the memories 😘🇺🇸🏴🏴
Oh wow, what a beautiful area to grow up in!💕
What a charming village and a tea room too! One of those pinch me moments, I am sure. Oh, those narrow roads! We had a few close calls travel out the countryside. One involved a lorry speeding around a bend in the road, not knowing we were approaching. Our coach driver squeezed off the road as far as he could and the lorry flew past with about 6 inches between him and us. It took some minutes for the chatter to resume.......After a British expletive, the coach driver asked if we were all awake! Another one was not so frightening but quite amusing. We met up with someone driving a full-size Chevy pickup truck. Odd to see that over there! He had to back up a way to let us past. Pleasant memories,
I know exactly what you are talking about... the locals seem to drive those narrow curvy roads and high speeds, brushing past other vehicles with a few millimetres of clearance, without batting an eye! They must have nerves of steel! Not me... LOL!
This is so beautiful, what a perfect place for an intimate dinner 😻
It was SO beautiful. I gave thanks EVERY DAY that we had lovely weather that allowed us to eat outside and enjoy places like this! What a blessing. We were so fortunate to be there when the weather was lovely and the infection rate was low enough that places were open for business. VERY LUCKY!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Of course eating outside with pouring rain is not pleasant
If I had been having that lunch at your Lustleigh tearoom, I think I would feel like I'd died and gone to heaven. What bliss!! And Ian, I have to laugh at your comment written here, about the leaf blower. Dara had such nice background music to her video, and everything seemed so perfect, that I thought the leaf blower sound was HERE, at one of my neighbor's houses!! Obviously, it did not spoil my enjoyment of your heavenly lunch.
No it wasn't that big of a deal. It bothers me a lot more now hearing it on the video, than it did at the time.
Oh that is SO FUNNY Bobby... You thought the leaf blower was outside your house, haha!
Yes, honestly I pretty much wanted to stay at that tea room and eat there the rest of my life. They had these amazing baked goods as well... but we were too full from the lovely lunch I didn't get to eat any of the desserts!
The carrot and ginger soup looks delicious!!
Every bit of that meal was SO delicious!
Ooh the narrow country roads!
Oh how pretty is the outside area of the tea room garden!
I love goats cheese, never had it with blackberry!
What a lovely little village! 🥰
Yes, we are so nervous on those windy little roads! Is your husband Mr. Nerves of Steel since he is an expert driver? That village was so pretty, and the tea room so ideal! I was surprised to have a quiche with blackberries in it, but it was actually so tasty!
Yes, in all our driving around the UK I think the ones in Dartmoor are the hairiest.
And a twee helicopter by the sound of it 🚁
Or leaf blower? it was MOST annoying to discover that in the edit! And "denoise" did not eliminate the pesky sound one little bit! Ugh.
@@MagentaOtterTravels that's life 🤔👍
@@MagentaOtterTravels it sounded to me like a lawn mower, though it may be any garden implement, so easily picked up by microphones to sound louder than they seemed at the time. Your voice came across clear and gentle, which seemed much more in keeping with the surroundings.
That pub looks top class quality,I’ve never been to lustleigh but will now.Thanks you two👍🏻
Definitely worth a visit!
Yes, next time we will have to hit the pub. Just want a smaller car with our next trip to Dartmoor.
Still waiting for you to discover your perfect Cornish Pasty...My guess is you're saving that one up!
You've certainly got Ian well-trained...he looks pleased to see you as you approach the table :-)
And yes it's certainly a very pretty little place...
Dave
The question is, was Ian smiling at me, or smiling for the camera?!
Call don’t worry, there is an upcoming episode called Pasty Quest which will answer your question about our search for delicious pasties! Bear with me while I take donkeys years editing all this footage into nice little videos! 😆
She definitely has me trained. I know that if I want a pleasant holiday I need to be cooperative, which includes trying any of the Nasty Pasties we came across in Cornwall.
@@ians3586 Ah the upside is, you get to taste the good ones too...the best I get from my spouse is a sickly grin!
wonderful village i love the building and that historical church! that restaurant garden is so peaceful
Yes, it was a magical little place!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels indeed
A great little video, it makes a change to see tourists videos showing that England is much more than London and fish and chips . And even better for me because I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up in Princetown on dartmoor 15 or so miles from Lustleigh.
Oh, nice! This coming Friday our vlog is about Dartmoor... including some wild ponies! Yes, you won't find many videos on my channel about London. But there will be one about fish & chips in the next month or so... showing some grew dinners we had in South Devon and North Devon seaside towns.
It's a funny town if it hasn't got a fish and chips shop...
@@david-lt9wj I guess that’s the real differentiation between a town and a village. A town has a fish and chip shop! LOL
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes if you want to know the Goss in town,ask your local friterie fryer...he knows all the juicy bits..
When driving down lanes like that it's a good idea to put your headlights on, cars coming the other way will see the light first.
Yes excellent tip!
We have traveled all over the UK, and Lustleigh was one of our favorite places. I believe some of those thatched homes are 1500 years old !! We also had a delightful visit and lunch at the Primrose Cafe !
Oh that makes me so happy to meet another fan!! How did you come across this video? And what part of the world do you live in?
@@MagentaOtterTravels Was doing some RUclips surfing of UK places and came across this video ... I am in New York State USA and have visited the UK many times for both work and vacation as my wife has family there.
@@gimme789 awesome! Nice to meet you! My husband and I live in Texas. We have been to England together over 20 times, because he has family there as well. We actually bought a flat in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire! We are hoping to spend the summer there, but waiting to see how things go ...
I hope you subscribe and stick around. It’s fun to hear the perspective of other Americans who have traveled to Britain quite a lot😉. Cheers! XX Dara
Love the thatched cottages! The village looks amazing!
I've seen many thatched cottages, but this village was particularly picturesque on the whole. Such a treasure! And the FOOD!!! Would love to go back.
I love to see that for once you Dara had the privilege to eat and Ian has to film during your lunch 😹
Yes, as my son Weston likes to say... THE CAMERA EATS FIRST! Haha
@@MagentaOtterTravels Dara, a lovely video in a beautiful village.
Why do you never put weight on after eating all that delicious food?
@@jillhobson6128 a combination of a ridiculous amount of hiking and eating healthy salads from M&S when I’m not filming! LOL
THANK YOU to everyone who entered the Giveaways! Winners of the US Giveaway have been notified. Winner of the UK Giveaway will be drawn this afternoon. I'll post a list of all winners on my Community tab tomorrow, and share them in next Tuesday's video as well!
I love this video. I love the greenery, the tea In is beautiful and the food looks amazing. 🤗🤗
Beautiful, beautiful place
Thanks! It was a pretty amazing day!💕
What a wonderful video, I loved this. Thank You for sharing this beautiful quaint village of Lustleigh. I would love to visit here in my travels. :)!!!
Oh, I do hope you make it to Lustleigh! It is not a tourist trap... just a lovely wee village! And there are so many amazing places to visit around there. I just hope you are OK with driving on narrow roads ;-) heehee
Roads are serpentine because the fields on either side needed enough space for an ox and plough to turn. The large trees you see occasionally are field boundary markers, the one between Devon and Somerset is particularly large.
Not all the hedgerows are tall, quite often the roads are so old, they’ve worn down until banks of earth are up on either side. Recently (about 100 years ago) the roads have been covered in tarmac, so they should stop going low.
Occasionally you may spot a fingerpost sign on a red post, that is said to be either where hanged people are buried, or rest stops for prisoners being transported (and guards were illiterate). I used to pick local wildflowers to leave there but now I just say a poem.
Oh my word... I have never heard about the fingerpost signs on red posts. That is awful! Part of our "Horrible Histories" I suppose. I think that is lovely that you say a poem and think of flowers. Beautiful.
great video. we may not be as big as America but we do have some great little villages,
FABULOUS little villages! We may hate driving the narrow roads getting to them at times, but we sure love it once we get there! 💕
Very pretty village! I would have loved to eat this lunch! Delicious! :)
Yes, I wish that you and Patz could have been there with us enjoying the lunch!
You do such a great job with your videos, well done , and you're welcome back anytime
Why thank you so much, kind sir! I hope you subscribe and stick around for our continued adventures. I'm currently publishing vlogs of our trip through Northumberland, and Yorkshire is coming up. But following that there will be Wales, and a big series on the Cotswolds. I hope you join the fun! Also, I want to make sure you saw this video from Dartmoor... and area we REALLY love: ruclips.net/video/EpyTHqRWUOE/видео.html
Cheers!
XX
Dara
@@MagentaOtterTravels yes subscribed and clicked on bell , been going through them this morning sat outside in the sun. Will do the rest tomorrow morning. Thanks for the enjoyment you've given me .
Lustleigh is truly the most picturesque village. Real picture postcard stuff.
It was totally unexpected, but I was SO in love!!
Looking at other comments about the road, it looked like you have enough space, you still had your side mirrors out, time to worry when you're touching both sides with your mirrors folded in 🙈🙏
Yes, I've been on those roads as well. Terrifying! We are always worried about damage to our rental car! 😬
@@MagentaOtterTravels always fully insured, no excess where possible for peace of mind, Ian your champion chauffeur, I got to drive in Florida, nice big open wide roads and still got wing mirror clipped by a truck
@@wencireone oh my! 😱
I was trying to figure out how Abide With Me could be coming from the church ... it’s a favourite of mine 🙂
That lunch looks amazing. Goat cheese quiche? Carrot soup with cheese scone? Delish! 😋😋😋
YES! I love Abide with Me as well! Funny story behind me getting that track... I get all my music from Epidemic Sound. I was searching for churchy music and found this one called "Bliv Kvar Hos Mig" ... having no idea what it was, I clicked and played it. I discovered it was Abide with Me, and that seemed to fit the mood of this video. I was chuffed!
And yes, the lunch was ah-mazing. I basically wish I could eat lunch there every day for the rest of my life. LOL
Great tour, so beautiful scenery and delicious food. Full watched and supported, stay connected, my friend
Lustleigh ... what a great name for a village! 😀
Crazy name... reminds me that I need to watch your latest video! I haven't watched anything in days and I need to catch up! We haven't even turned on the telly here in our flat yet and I haven't watched anything on my phone or laptop. It's been complete chaos so far... hoping to get a little quarantine boredom yet! haha
@@MagentaOtterTravels It's probably done you the world of good having a break from everything! Don't worry, just enjoy yourselves!
Love Lustleigh , will pass through there when I'm next in Devon 👍💕
And eat at that tea shop if it's spring/summer! SO GOOD! I think they are closed in the cold months.
@@MagentaOtterTravels ...I know a few of my uncles neighbours in Beer, Devon that shoot off to the Bahamas, Spain and many places in the Caribbean during the winter months ....they must of had a good summer 🤷😆
`Reversed half a mile ? " The Patron Saint of the Road is not an Englishman, but St. Sebastian de Mexico. Alas, ma`am you`ll find few Saints on our roads. But fair play to that chap that had the grace give over.
Sorry, I am prone to exaggeration... it was nowhere near half a mile. But because we are so uncomfortable "backing up" (as we say in the states) it seemed like a long way! LOL
But to see the lovely Lustleigh it was well worth it!!!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Heck, Mrs Magenta, no need for you to apologise to me. If you are prepared to sojourn our horrid roads by and in mechanical contraptions fair play to you. I wish you farewwell amidst the to and fro.
If I could escape it I would, and have absolutely no idea why you endure it. Are you barking ?
A thoroughly delightful video, but may I correct one small error? You make reference to Commonwealth War Graves, but the graves you indicate are not the Commonwealth War Graves. The war graves will date from post First World War and WW2 and there are likely to be just a very small number as most of the war graves will be found abroad, especially in Belgium and France, but also the Middle and Far East. The Commonwealth War Graves have headstones of a particular uniform pattern and are inscribed with name and regiment as well as the date of death. In a country churchyard you would probably need to search round to locate them. I thought you would like to know this.
Thank you so much for clarifying and explaining! As you may have noticed, I had no idea what I was talking about in that part of the video! 😂
I am way outside my comfort zone when I discuss history, and definitely wars! I try to make sure I get my facts straight, but when I am talking off the cuff like I was there, it’s pretty dangerous!
Sometimes I think I should just take the talking about food 🙄... but seriously, I appreciate your comment and I hope you subscribe and stick around for some of our other adventures. Feel free to correct me because I do enjoy learning!
@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you for taking the trouble to read and reply. I have subscribed to your channel and have been very impressed with what I have seen so far. I just had to correct you about the Commonwealth War Graves Commission whose work I so admire. They continue to care for the war graves worldwide. Even now remains are often found in France and Belgium. Using forensic techniques they try where possible to identify them and give them a proper burial at the most appropriate CWGC cemetery. The most likely reason for the U.K. CWGC Graves would be for the repatriated wounded who subsequently died from wounds. I have just checked the CWGC website and discovered that there are over 170,000 CWGC graves in U.K. cemeteries.
All the lanes are like this around us in North Devon.
I keep hoping that one day we'll get used to it like "the locals"... but it hasn't happened yet. I've been editing footage for next Friday's video of a wee village we love in Gloucestershire called Sheepscombe. The roads terrify us every time we drive there... but once you are there, it is SO worth it! haha
@@MagentaOtterTravels
It's why all the locals buy their cars 'pre scratched'. LOL
@@jacketrussell funny you should say that! For the first time this year, we are buying our own vehicle rather than hiring one 😉
Great video♡
Full support
Thanks so much!
the depth of the lanes is testament to their age. The older they are, the lower from the field level they are, some are thought to be over 1000 years old and have been worn down through generations of use
That is wild to think of a lane being 1000 years old!😳
@@MagentaOtterTravels after doing a bit more research, some date back to roman times and before so are over 2000 years old.
@@MrNathanDJNGGiles oh yes, EVERY TIME we drive on a straight road in England with Ian’s mum (which is rare) she says “this must be a Roman road”!😂
5:19 lol!
Thanks for appreciating my goofy, self-depricating sense of humour! haha
Oh my goodness, it’s like you are in a painting! Well worth that scary drive! Beautiful village & video! ~Cara 😊
That was literally one of my very favourite meals the whole trip... SUCH a fun day!!
Nices video. We have similar villages near to me - less the thatched roofs - that is more of a Devon/Somerset feature of UK buildings. Not so sure you got the Commonwealth War Graves photo correct. War graves are usually rectangular in shape and white in colour. See www.cwgc.org/ for examples. Happy to be corrected though.
Looks like a lovely place but please bear in mind that the words twee and quaint do tend to sound a bit condescending in British English!
Thank you for your comment. I was lectured about this in my first month of having a RUclips channel two years ago... and I have been SO aware of it ever since. Literally EVERY American Anglophile I know says "cute" or "quaint" when they talk about the British things they love (Cotswold villages, thatched houses, red phone boxes, etc etc etc). I have painstakingly tried to avoid saying those on video... what did I say in this one? I forget because it was over a year ago.
Note: no Americans say "twee" ... that is a British word. If I said it in this video I was TRYING to sound British. So if I offended in doing so, that is doubly disappointing!
Cheers
Dara
Wow, that food looks amazing!! Are you going back there in 2021??
I don't know that we will go back South this year. We are heading NORTH to Scotland and Yorkshire to visit old and new friends first. This summer our plans are still very up in the air because we don't know if our friends and family (who have flights booked already) will even be able to come... the US needs to get off the Amber list!
@@MagentaOtterTravels I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Did you have any problems getting through customs? I heard talk about very long waiting times ...
I wouldn't fancy reversing a caravan two miles on that lane...
Indeed! We are not that proficient at reversing, so we try to avoid it when possible😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels some counties are no go if all they have to offer is this.....but I do find that
The more difficult journeys are the best destinations....as they are the most unspoilt..
@@david-lt9wj We totally agree! Our favorite pub in the Cotswolds is at the end of a pretty treacherous nerve-racking drive. We just endure the narrow roads and celebrate when we get to an A road! 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels exackly....one of the places I love is aberystwyth....and it's great and I want
The M54 to continue through Shrewsbury onwards to aberystwyth....but I know the charm would go...
If I didn't have to struggle through those mountain passes...and I had to start worrying about lorries doing the ton on my tail...the same goes for Bude....it involves 20 miles of chicanery....before I can stroll down the strand..parfait ! Hartland point is another example..
@@MagentaOtterTravels name that pub...
Dartmoor and pretty ?
Sounds like regional bias... where you from, mate?
i still dont understand how a person cannot like cheese!!! or seafood lol
Melted cheese is my love language 🩷🧀
Goodness, could you have driven any slower?
Haha those Dartmoor roads scare us and I’m easily motion sick on curvy roads… also, I might have adjusted the film speed? I don’t remember, since I did this video a year ago. But come on… wasn’t that a pretty village?!
@@MagentaOtterTravels
Yes, but I live about 15 miles from there so fairly normal really.
There are many villages like these all around Devon.
I am deeply in love with Devon. You are just too spoiled to realise how beautiful it all is! 😂. To see my Texas neighborhood, watch this video with some drone footage: ruclips.net/video/KNJcnTqvAfk/видео.html