We have been walking the SW Coast Path since January 2018. It feels as though we should have completed it some time ago. It was a minor casualty of Covid. At the start of 2022 we had 90 miles to go. We started our seventh holiday let week with the aim of covering at least … Continue reading Skeletons on the Tarka Trail →

The first day of our December walk was to be spiced up by its coincidence with the “meaningful vote”. On our way down to Mothecombe we discovered that the vote had been pulled so we were going to be denied this excitement. In the event there was another rather different meaningful vote the following evening. … Continue reading Meaningful walking →

Our November plan was modest – to get from Salcombe to Bantham. When we set off in January we did not carefully review where the “seasonal ferries” are. Well lots of them are in Devon and November is definitely not seasonal in their terms. So it looked as though we would only manage 13 miles … Continue reading Too wet to wade →

For the last fifty miles or so of our walking cirl buntings have been the ghosts at the party – invited but never present. At the end of October they decided it was time to talk to Martin after all and they feted him throughout the walk. Our journey was from one great sailing river … Continue reading Swirling bunches of cirl buntings and another 23 miles →

In our walking we missed August and perhaps August missed us. But restarting in September meant that the angry heat had gone and normal British weather was restored. We had two days in which we saw and left Devon's "Riviera" and arrived in deep Devon. It is quite a contrast. We also had to accommodate … Continue reading Sampling Torbay and finding Dartmouth →

In our second weekend of walking in July the old engineering adage “In emergency read instructions” was apt. We did not do our due diligence very well. We were a threesome again with Martin rejoining. When we arrived at Starcross we made the startling discovery within a couple of minutes that Martin is a railway … Continue reading Steep, stiff, strenuous, severe – which is which when applied to a coastal climb? →

We did no walking in June, so were doubly keen to get going again in July. But by the middle of the month the hot spell had started. So the plan was modified to two short walks. Anne and Richard had celebrated their 40th anniversary the previous weekend and Anne said she wanted to celebrate … Continue reading Going again – but hot →