We decided to try to travel a little further afield on this visit as we tend to stay within a 10 mile radius of Parkham, where we still find plenty to do. This time we ventured as far as Croyde where we parked the car and then walked around Baggy Point to Putsborough and then back along the lanes to Croyde. It is a good walk with fantastic views and well worth the journey of 50 minutes or so.
We were joined by daughter, future son-in-law and dog for the second week which meant that The Granary was at full capacity and the new dishwasher came into its own.
We all travelled into Cornwall to Sandymouth on a lovely sunny afternoon. This was the first time we had visited Sandymouth at low tide and we were amazed at the huge expanse of beautiful beach - we shall certainly return as it is only 40 minutes away.
We also walked the coast path from Greencliff to Westward Ho! and back, after a coffee break at the Pier House restaurant. Westward Ho! was getting lots of national publicity at the time. Local businessman Rob Braddick had bought the car park near Seafield House and made it free to park, as well as buying Seafield House, a house on the cliff-edge which has been in derelict condition for many years, although it was lived in by an old lady until a few months ago. Rob was standing by the car park being filmed as we passed by.
We had not walked this path in late spring before and had not seen the fantastic wild flowers in particular sea pinks and sea campion. We also saw the effect on the gorse of the dodder which we had seen last summer covering many plants with some dead and partly dead bushes.
Our journey back to the Midlands was eventful for the last 15 miles as we began to smell diesel and then saw steam rising from the radiator grill when stationary. All the gauges were reading fine so decided to carry on carefully home and the garage has a found a pinhole in the fuel hose which was squirting diesel onto the hot engine. It might have been a very different story in a petrol-engined car!
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