Alan & Teena In England

 Hi everyone,

Well, we had good flights over and didn't really feel like we had very much jet-lag.

We are staying with my sister and brother-in-law in Honiton, Devon. We have been out for a few short walks, mostly in the rain! We thought we would write our blogs and send them in so you can see what we are up to.

5th Sept

The rain was pretty bad all day, so we went for a drive to Exmouth. A lovely little seaside town about 20 minutes away. We had a few things to do in the town and then drove along the seafront. I have included a photo of the beach huts there, not as interesting as the ones we saw in Brighton.

 



6th Sept

Alan and I went for a walk around Honiton, it was raining all the time and yes, we got very wet! We walked around the back roads and into the town. We went into a cafe for morning tea and thought of you all on your hike the day before. We only had walked 5.4km that day, but it was a start.

7th Sept

After a lovely evening at our friends daughters wedding celebration (they got married in San Francisco), we walked to the Double Locks the following morning with our friends.  A great pub along Exeter Canal. This is a very popular pub as you can walk, cycle or drive there. It gets very busy in the summer and we have been there many, many times. It doesn't seem to change. A wet walk back, 6km walk.


8th Sept

Today it was dry! Alan and I walked into Honiton and out to Coombe Raleigh, a very small village in the country. We managed to get back to my sisters just after it started to rain so we didn't get too wet this time. 8km










We are feeling very relaxed and are enjoying meeting up with our friends again and spending time with my sister and brother-in-law.

We hope you are all well, we miss you all.

Teena and Alan




Comments

  1. Jan10 September 2024 at 17:04

    I'm just looking on the map to see where Honiton is and it looks like you're almost surrounded by Areas Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. You're going to have a fun time exploring such a beautiful area. : - )

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anonymous10 September 2024 at 18:10

      Hi Jan, yes that's right, we have walked in this area before and it really is an AONB
      Missing you all xx

      Delete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

1. Jan's Hadrian's Wall Hike

Image
In  January 2019 my sister, brother and I decided that we’d like to go on a long-distance walk in the UK. My brother had an urge to walk right across the country, so after searching the map of England we discovered that we could accomplish this in the least distance on the Hadrian’s Wall walk. Unfortunately, my brother had to cancel because of a serious health diagnosis but he wanted us to go and be his eyes and ears. So, in September 2019 my sister and I landed in Newcastle Upon Tyne, made our way on public transport to Bowness on Solway on the west coast of England and began our adventure. We had paid a company to organise our nightly accommodation and luggage transfers so all we had to do was walk, carrying a day  pack. Most people complete the  135 km  walk in six  days,  but we decided to take nine days so that we could take our time and see the sights along the way.  W e walked for a couple of days befor e we saw a very straight  clump ...
Read more

2. Janet McKay. The Cornwall Coast Path

Image
Having wanting to return to Cornwall for many years, I decided, b eing in England last year,  that I would walk the South West Section of the Cornwall Coast Path  from St Ives  to Penzance,  a 7 day walk of 63 kilometres, an average of 11 kilometres per day. Easy, I thought ,  having  regularly  walked longer distances with the  U3A  Hiking group over the p revious 2 years. I booked i nto a  self-guided  walk with a tour company that organised accommodation and luggage transfers and advertised groups of no more than 20 people, and  in May 2019,  set off to St Ives armed with maps, trip guide and a compass and whistle provided by my brother in law who was seriously concerned about the venture!  ( Forget  GPS technology!) However,  arriving at St Ives I disco vered there was no group.  I was on my own,  and on rereading  the trip notes ,  noted the statement “track well marked generally, ju...
Read more