🏖️ More Than Words – Episode 47: Devon Sent 🏖️
From Spanish siestas so deep they require a full reboot of the operating system to Devon, a county so pleased with itself it named a geological period after its own vibe. This episode is sunshine, pork, ancient geology, Tudor chaos, Canadian chapels in fields, and a dog digging up Victorian murder evidence like it’s auditioning for Time Team: Pets Edition.
Featuring:
🍋 Almoradí’s grid — earthquake‑proof town planning and a market longer than most relationships
🍤 Menu del Día — Spain’s “eat until horizontal” lunch philosophy
🧵 Honiton lace — royal wedding chic made by 5,000 women who deserved hazard pay
🔥 Hot Pennies Day — medieval tradition of throwing heated coins at people, because Britain
🇨🇦 Wolford Chapel — a tiny slice of Ontario hiding in Devon like a polite diplomatic Easter egg
⚔️ Fenny Bridges — Tudor rebellion, mercenaries, and a jester who accidentally cancelled a military advance
🕳️ Swampy’s tunnel — Britain’s most famous eco‑protester living underground on Frosties
🐶 Stanley’s poison bottle — Labrador uncovers Victorian murder artefact; local history loses its mind
🏛️ Exeter — Romans, Normans, Luftwaffe, and a cathedral ceiling that refuses to end
It’s travel with Spanish naps, Devonian drama, Tudor bloodshed, eco‑protest tunnels, Canadian micro‑territories, and a dog solving cold cases. Equal parts sunny, surreal, and gloriously Devonian.

🛤️ More Than Words – Stage 46: Life in the Fosse Lane 🛤️
From the world’s first powered aircraft to an alpaca facilitating a marriage proposal, via a church that forgot where the village was — because Somerset’s tourism strategy is apparently “Roman roads, Victorian overachievement, and a very confused Church of England.”
Featuring:
🫘 Habas fritas: fried broad beans, one cold beer, and the nearest thing to perfection Spain will allow

🐴 The horse guy from Stage 17: back again. Still trotting. Still absolutely fine with all of it
🎺 Hornblotton: named after a Saxon was paid in land for honking at the king. Britain has always been like this
⛪ Hornblotton church: made one catastrophic navigational error and is still styling it out
🏛️ Ilchester: where the MP once demolished opponents’ houses. Modern electoral law has thoughts
🍺 Lydford-on-Fosse: the pub that declared independence from the UK, and ran a border checkpoint made of bar mats
🛩️ Chard: first powered aircraft, 1848. The Wright Brothers arrived 55 years later and got all the credit 🦙 Cary Fitzpaine: ten houses, a post box, and an alpaca who helped close a marriage proposal
Roman roads, experimental aircraft, rotten boroughs, sovereign pubs, alpaca wedding planners, and a hamlet officially registered as “Part of Huxham Green” because no one could think of anything better. Equal parts Somerset legend, Victorian overachievement, and quietly inexplicable.

🏌️ More Than Words – Episode 45: Grave New World 🏌️
From oxygen labs to Roman villas to golf balls committing crimes against architecture — episode 45 is basically British history, Spanish weather, and Enlightenment science all asking to speak to the manager.
Featuring:
⛳ Boys’ Trip Chaos: one golf shot, two villas, and physics filing a complaint
🏛️ Roman Ruins (Par‑5 Edition): Seve meets Time Team
🧪 Derry Hill’s Big Reveal: the village where someone casually invented breathing
📸 Lacock’s Camera Roll: BBC costume drama energy, and the birthplace of photography
🏡 Whitley & Broughton Common: villages politely declining to be interesting
🏰 Great Chalfield Manor: medieval grandeur with built‑in peepholes for recreational snooping
⛪ Bradford‑on‑Avon: Saxon churches, Roman villas, tithe barns, and a surprise Buddhist monastery
🍺 Norton St Philip: a pub that’s been serving ale since before the Black Death
📜 Faulkland, Kilmersdon & Holcombe: folklore treated like a competitive sport
🍏 Shepton Mallet: Babycham, prisons, and more history than seems strictly necessary
⚰️ Cannard’s Grave: a destination that does exactly what it says on the tin
It’s travel with Enlightenment breakthroughs, medieval manors, Roman archaeology, boys‑trip physics, and weather apps improvising like jazz musicians.