Day 10: Lyme Regis to Dorchester … by bus!
Lyme Regis is feted in film and literature, but in its modern form it sits somewhere between museum and amusement park. It’s far too crowded at this time of year to really appreciate its...
Monthly Archive: May 2023
Day 9: Beer to Lyme Regis
Only four fronted up for what we have decided is to be our last day of walking. While today was marked ‘Moderate to strenuous’, and tomorrow ‘moderate to hard’, half of us felt that...
Day 8: Sidmouth to Beer
It’s about 17 km between the two towns, and the guidebooks warned that it would be strenuous, so it was only Al, Ben and me that set out for Beer. It was strenuous, but...
Day 7: Exmouth to Sidmouth via Budleigh Salterton
I have walked to Budleigh from Exmouth before, but it was odd how much of the walk I had forgotten. I had an sense that it had taken about thirty minutes, but it was...
Day 6: back on the path, Exeter to Exmouth
Paula and I had missed out on the walk to the walk to Exeter Quay during our time in Exeter (for some reason we had walked to Bonhay instead), so we were quite amazed...
Days 3—5: Return to Exeter
The originating logic behind this trip was a desire to return some of Mum and Dad’s ashes back to Devon, where they had been born and spent all of their school years. I don’t...
Day 2: Teignmouth to Exeter
Wednesday 24 May 2023 Oft him anhaga are gebideð, metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig geond lagulade longe sceolde hreran mid hondum hrimcealde sæ wadan wræclastas. Wyrd bið ful aræd! Swa cwæð eardstapa, earfeþa...
Day 1: Torquay to Teignmouth
In which our intrepid band discovers the joys and rigours of the South West Coast Path… The South West Coast Path is just over 1,000 km in length (and less than a metre wide...
Many meetings
We left Belfast from the wonderfully named George Best International Airport. Small airports are often the best travelling experience, and two buses got us there with a minimum of fuss — except for a...
Day 19: The Game of Giant’s Causeway
Tour groups and bus trips are not our preferred mode of holidaying, even when they offer experiences we could not otherwise gain access to. Other friends to a lot of this sort of thing;...