Cream tea

Down in Devon today for the launch of the new Mazda 2. We flew down from Biggin Hill on a small plane and landed at Exeter Airport. Final destination: Salcombe, after a road route that included a drive over Dartmoor.

I was really looking forward to seeing some old haunts, because we used to holiday in the Salcombe area when the kids were small, and we had a Mirror dinghy that we used to sail on the sheltered water of the Salcombe estuary. The weather was disappointing today, damp and misty, but it was fun to revisit familiar territory.

We are staying in a hotel that I remember from way back, when it was called the Marine and was rather old fashioned, a bit stuffy and frightfully yachty. Now called the Harbour Hotel, it has undergone a huge makeover and is now very cool and swish - including this remarkable parking turntable outside the main entrance, with a central metal 'sail' that makes a great reflection for today's blip.

On the way here we stopped for a cream tea on the edge of Dartmoor. So what's the difference between a cream tea in Devon and one in Cornwall? In Devon it is jam on the scone first, then the cream. In Cornwall it is cream first, then jam.