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[(24th (Monday)]
    arriving about 2.0 pm. We booked
in at the Metropole, I left the car in
to be serviced and we set off by
bus. We walked from the Basin up
the gorge to the gardens which were
intelligently planted with azaleas  and
maples. A walk up a very steep road
and bus back to the Museum and
from there to the hotel. After
dinner we went to the flat of Heather
Jones, zoologist at the Museum, who was
on the camp out where we drank
beer and chatted till 10.0 pm.
25th (Tuesday)   It was a windy clear day
when we started off from Launceston 
at 9.0 am and headed west. The 
thirty-mile trip through rolling country,
green with lush pastures and given
character by hawthorn hedges, poplars
and other English trees in which
were half-hidden old stone groves [guess]
passed far too quickly. We finished
our provisioning at Deloraine and
