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We leave home at 10:45 and stop at Playing Place for fuel. It's a bright and sunny journey with a medium amount of traffic, but once we are through the Temple roadworks it is quieter. There are lots of motorhomes heading west, some no doubt bound for the Royal Cornwall Show.
The lateness of spring this year is shown by the full blossom on May trees which dot Bodmin Moor with their white pompom shapes.
After lunch in a layby near Okehampton we join the M5 to the Tiverton junction and head north through pretty Devon and Somerset lanes. The road is quite narrow in places but not busy.
A few miles from our destination Ali spots a motorhome in a layby up ahead. As we get nearer we recognise the familar rear end of Margo and pull alongside to say hello ito Nick and Grete. Minutes later we are back in convoy chatting over the two-way radios like old times as we make the short trip to Exe Valley camping at Bridgetown.
Ali and Grete go to check in where they are welcomed by wardens, Paul and Kath, who make coffee for all of us before we find our pitches up at the quiet end of the site.
We stayed here at Easter 2014, and today is every bit as peaceful and attractive as we remember it, but walking along the river to the weir we notice how low the water level is compared to then.
The afternoon is spent catching up with each others' news and travels since we were last together in Portugal in January. Nick shows off the lumps and scars he got falling off the van roof a few weeks ago and Grete gives Alii a bag of goodies and souvenirs collected along their travels.
Dinner is fish pie brought from home, eaten sitting out in the eary evening sun listening to the bird song all around us before turning in for an early night.
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