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Article: HOLIDAY HOT SPOTS: That's Moor like it!(Features)
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- The People (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Byline: DENNIS EDENSOR
SHERLOCK Holmes's sidekick reckoned Dartmoor gave him the shivers.
But Dr Watson was hunting the Hound of the Baskervilles at the time - and murder mysteries need a bit of bleakness and drizzle.
You don't get the same atmosphere of menace from the sound of birdsong above golden gorse and hedgerows teeming with bluebells - which was the sunny scene greeting my family and me on a spring visit to Devon's wide open spaces.
True, ...