With the weather being so sunny of late, we decided it was time for our first picnic of the year and where better to go than one of my all time favourite places on Exmoor, Malmesmead and the Lorna Doone Valley.
It’s such a quiet and picturesque walk along the riverside and is home to Lorna Doone: A romance on Exmoor, written by Richard Doddridge Blackmore and published as far back as 1869. Although worlds apart from the dark paranormal romances written by my beautifully talented wife Lindsay, Lorna Doone is set in the historical era of the 17th century in Devon and Somerset, and in particular around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor.