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February 5, 2023
Booked this for a two night stop, for a running event nearby. Booking was easy, and communications from Jon was great. Hadn't really looked too hard at what the place was like, as we'd normally have camped. Anyway, the first obvious thing, was the journey there. Satnavs have NO understanding of road types. Many of South Devon's lanes are narrow, and I mean NARROW! To be honest it doesn't bother me, but it adds time to the journey, when, in fact, the slightly longer route on larger roads is quicker. Blackawton is a little off the beaten track, so you'll have a mile ish, of narrow roads, but not the narrowest like we had. On arriving, we parked up and made our way in with the dogs. Introduced ourselves and were received with a big warm, friendly welcome, by the staff behind the bar, who soon showed us to our room which had a great view across the South Devon countryside. The room, like the rest of the Inn is decorated in an amazingly different style to any other places I've stopped, and gives off a cosy warm atmosphere. The room we'd booked was, ''compact and bejou'', but had everything we needed. ( Jon had enquired in his emails, as to the size of our two dogs, as he'd wondered if the room was big enough, but as theyr'e only Terriers, I assured him it would be fine. having settled in, we made our way down to eat in the bar which was now full of locals. There's a good selection of local beers and all the usual other drinks available. The menu isn't vast, like you get in some places, but the food is definitely hand cooked, and not just pulled out a freezer and microwaved. Service was excellent and really friendly. We returned to our room early, as We needed to be up early. We could hear the customers below quite clearly. This was a Friday and, as we were later told, tends to be locals night, as opposed to Saturday, which is more diner's night. The noise level was noticeably more subdued on the Saturday. We didn't have breakfast on Saturday morning , as we were out before breakfast time. On the second night , we ate in the dinning area, as the bar was full, and again the same great level of service and quality of food. The second morning we had breakfast and were offered the usual coffee, juices, cereal, full English and , our choice of Avocado and poached eggs on toast which was again of great quality. We spoke to Jon, who's not originally from the local area, or for that matter this hemesphere, but is a proper character, with his accent and has an interesting story, as to how he ended up here. Like the rest of his staff, he took a genuine interest in us and why we'd come down and how I'd got on in my running event. Our stay was brilliant, we loved the atmosphere and the service. Our room was, as I said, 'compact', but I did look in one of the others and it was very spacious. One strange quirk of the Inn, is that there are no staff on site at night, and milk was left in the cooler behind the bar, to which you helped yourself. Quite odd to be left