We've had the most excellent weekend down in Devon and Dorset. We went with our grand Humans for a long weekend. There was, as you might imagine, a great deal of feasting :-)
We stayed in a little seaside town called Seaton which we had never heard of. It turns out that the grand Humans hadn't heard of it either! Frannie had booked us all into a B&B based purely on the pictures on their website!!! Fortunately, it was a good find. A lovely, comfortable, snuggly bed and magnificent breakfasts delivered right into our room. We were right by the sea. It was all excellent for venerable hippos.
We dined in pubs. We went on a tram ride. Sleepy tried to drive the tram away but the real tram driver came back and stopped us. We had to passenger back on another tram. We were chased by a lion and smothered in flowers. The sun shone and shone and shone and shone and the sea was as blue as blue as blue can be.
And then we went to River Cottage HQ where we strolled in the gardens and drank elderflower fizz and ate lots of lovely, lovely food and had a friendly chat with the very lovely Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. (He came over later and told Frannie that he likes us hippos. That was very gratifying. We like him too!)
We came home via Braishfield and called into the Wheatsheaf to have lunch and to catch up with the just as lovely Matthew.
And now we are back at the Grand humans' house. It's nearly time for us to return to our own Human. We are very, very soon off to Japan!
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