North Devon

108. Welcombe Mouth to Hartland Quay

5 1/2 Miles Miles walked since starting ... We’ve been kept awake by the beating rain on the roof of our cosy bedroom in an outbuilding behind the pub, flashes of lightning lighting up the room through the Velux window. Even the landlady says it was exceptionally stormy overnight, as we enjoy our full English breakfast in the now deserted bar. As we leave our delightful lodge at the end of the pub garden it’s as if last night’s downpour never happened. We take the steep track back down the valley to re-join the North Devon coast path then up the other side where we discover “Ronald Duncan’s [...]

107. Northcott Mouth to Welcombe Mouth

9 1/2 Miles Miles walked since starting ... Despite many setbacks, including breaking my wrist in January and our car breaking down just three days ago, we return to Bude in a sexy red mini – the garage courtesy car. Our overnight bed and breakfast at the Edgcumbe Hotel in Bude, perched above Summerleaze Beach, is perfect. The lady showing us our room couldn’t have been friendlier, the upgraded sea view room extremely cosy, and the breakfast as good as the one we had enjoyed here last November. The grey and white clouds hang low over Summerleaze and Crooklets beach as we return over Maer Cliff to start [...]