The Doc is in OR Mark loses his lunch!

Change of weather 🌦️ today: shorts 🩳 swapped for jeans 👖 and jackets! Mist 🌫️ rolling in early afternoon… Eerie & strangely comforting.

Doc Martin Tour time: Just quietly, I think I knew more than he did… 😜Although, our Guide was in many of the scenes of the series. For example, he was one on the board of directors who employed Louisa at the school. It was a very relaxed and leisurely wander around looking at all of the major filming locations. Mrs. Tishalls’ Pharmacy is actually a fudge shop and, in fact, most of the inside scenes of all the houses are filmed in different locations because the inside of most of the buildings used in the series were too small… Even the Doc’s house!

Interestingly, there are actually only 20 actual residents that live in the Village of Port Isaac. The rest of the buildings are empty and are holiday rentals! So, the Guide told us that the locals really did not make any money from the filming because it all went to the owners who aren’t local.

For lunch we decided to have a fresh lobster 🦞 sandwich from the local fish co-op and walked out into the fresh, salty sea air… then…
Whoosh 💨
I felt the flap of a wing on my face and looked across at Mark who had a stunned look & was no longer holding the sandwich! One of our seagull friends had taken it straight out of his hand!
We went straight back in and the lady behind the counter was kind enough to give us another one gratis and we kept it well covered until we got outside…
But, within a split second…
Whoosh! 💨 Guess what? 🙀…yep!
For a second time! 🤦🏻‍♂️
Mark decided he wasn’t meant to have a lobster sandwich so we opted for cake and coffee safely behind the window of a nearby patisserie!

Let’s hope we have better luck with dinner 🍽️🙃😜Read more