First, Exeter Youth Hostel is pretty good — especially the food and the local ale they have available. Then there is an extremely pleasant walk along either the canal bank or the water meadows of the Exe from Countess Weir (where the YH is) into Exeter. Started in the mist but the sun gradually broke through. All the trees, bushes and greenery on the cusp of Spring. Cormorants on the weir at Exeter wharf.
And Exeter in the afternoon was very pleasant. A few people were pretending it was warm enough for continental café culture — and it nearly was — but the sun warmed the skin, certainly. Inside the cathedral the sun was low enough to shine through the windows on the South side and illuminate the walls on the North — wonderful feeling of lightness. Interesting memorials, including one which included a hint of unease in that it commended the deceased for an energy of mind unusual in the female ! One can only wonder.
