 Errrm, quite possibly ID-does ring a bell, i think a fair few miles down south of Lynmouth if that helps
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 yip thats sounds about right its 2 miles south of Lynmouth at malmsmead, little gift shop and a car park nearby
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ID, Just looked it up and we used the Hoareoak centre grid ref: (737,458) 
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ang on a mo....I'll have a look on mem map.....
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Ahhh, we usually camp at SS 792 478 which is superb for a 5 mile bimble to Watersmeet along the east Lynn river lovely area alround though and back on topic, the campsite allows campfires and will also supply the wood if required
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site noted ID 
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defo worth a visit. we go down at least 3 or 4 times a year and we were down there last month (when it snowed) but a good time was had by all (apart from the food posioning I got)
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I will certainly visit at some point ID, though I'll try not to get food poisoning lol (bummer about that!)
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I will certainly visit at some point ID, though I'll try not to get food poisoning lol (bummer about that!) you have noooooooo idea....  the world fell out of my bottom......
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 Lamb Find-a-loo was it?
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well it was certainly eye of a needle time
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lol! Sorry ID-not to laugh at your misery or anything!
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well at least I can see the funny side of things now but at the time........... anyway the walk to watersmeet was grand and finished off with a rather large ice cream.......
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"anyway the walk to watersmeet was grand and finished off with a rather large ice cream....... " Well it's sounding more of a good idea all the time Could always make a slight detour when i do the Devon coast to coast in Summer
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I can honestly say that the walk from malmsmead through Brendon to Watersmeet is one of the most pleasant walks I have done in a long time....and then you can walk the extra 2 miles to lynmouth and then onto Countisbury if you wish..... lovely lovely area
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 There's a nice chapter about campfires in The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd Olson, some quotes:
"In years of roaming the wilds, my campfires seem like glowing beads in a long chain of experience. Some of the beads glow more than the others, and when I blow on them ever so softly, they burst into flame. When that happens, I recapture the scenes themselves, pick them out of the almost forgotten limbo of the past and make them live." "There have been countless campfires, each one different, but some so blended into their backgrounds that it is hard for them to emerge. But I have found that when I catch even a glimmer of their almost forgotten light in the eyes of some friend who has shared them with me, they begin to flame once more. Those old fires have strange and wonderful powers. Even their memories make life the adventure it was meant to be."
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 Wow! Lovely stuff there indeed, Chasrle.
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 I can't remember the name of the film... but it had Sylvester Stallone in it... and involved vast amounts of stolen cash... but at one point he was sitting on the snow at night-time, chucking thick wads of cash onto a fire to keep warm, saying... "It costs a fortune to heat this place!"
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Cliffhanger! Better than the impromptu campfire in the crashed jungle plane, in Romancing the Stone though! Where Michael Douglas was burning up whole big blocks of one of the hemp drugs!
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 Lots of mutton chops and beer, lost the BBQ grill once the sun went down and built up the fire, more beer... superb.
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