Day 25 Westward Ho to Clovelly

Best night’s sleep for ages. Not sure why, but was great.

Breakfast over, in which I slipped half the coffee on the table. It wasn’t that good really.

Down to Westward Ho to get lunch provisions and stuff and we are off.

Bath Houses

The first bit is along the Esplanade with lots of cutesy bath houses with twee names, then along an old railway line, which naturally is quite flat.

Once off that at the walk starts to become bumpy.

Lots of ups and downs with not much respite in between. When I comes we are thankful, and usually it is a rather nice glade we walk through.

Then ore ups and they have built steps to take you up the ups and down the downs and they, of course, don’t correspond to any ordinary persons step and they are quite tiring.

We drop into a lovely little village, Bucks Mill, where we MAY get an ice cream. We don’t, the shop is closed.

Bucks Mill

We have lunch instead.

It’s then up again through Bucks Valley Woods and The Hobby, that finally leads us to view of Clovelly, at sea level, 150 metres below us.

Our accommodation is the other way, so we turn off and climb 150 metres to our B and b, where we arrive at 3.00PM with check in at 4.00PM, so we sit outside basking in the sun until our host, Chris arrives. He is a very chatty retired carpenter.

The only eating places around are, you guessed it down at sea level, so it’s a walk down 300 metres, but luckily our host offers to pick us up when our meal is over.

So it’s off down the path we came up on, then down the cobbled street of Clovelly, down, past the New Hotel, down past the Charles Kingsley Museum, down past the village shop to finally reach the dock and the Red Lion.

Sea side place requires a seafood meal, which we had with chips.

A couple of beers then a call to our host ad we are back getting ready for bed.