Day 23, Sat 24th Sept. Hope Cove to Torcross

As another dry day dawned over delightful Devon we drove the 45 minute journey from our home at Start Point to today's starting line at Hope Cove. (I should add here that "Start Point" is the official Ordnace Survey Map name of one of the Devon headlands, complete with coastwatch and lighthouse. So it's not our starting point but their Start Point. Get it? Good!). Soon I was whistling a merry tune as I dashed over hills and down dales driven by an unquenchable wanderlust (Does anyone actually read this nonsense?). Torcross was the destination, 22.1 miles from Hope Cove which, calibrated  into distance covered from Minehead, is 465 miles, leaving a balance of 165 still to be considered before the 30 days are up. Anyone taking bets yet?

Close to the Erme estuary yesterday I met a chap on the Path from Lancashire ("Trouble at mill, lad, with state of tide;tha won't be crossing on ferry today".) But he went on to say that he was now on the last leg of an 8-year pilgrimage and should complete the saga later that day.He was absolutely beside himself with juvenile excitement but tinged with a touch of lamentation that the enterprise was almost at an end. And then there was a walker who had begun his adventure in Norfolk and was aiming to walk the whole of the British coastline in his retirement, but at age 92 I don't think he stands a chance somehow. But there's comfort to be drawn from the knowledge that I'm not the only idiot on the Path: there's hundreds of 'em!

Today is our last day in Alison's friend's house, which sits immediately next to the Path and commands breathtaking views of the high hills and the high seas. Tomorrow we're off to our next caravan in Dawlish Warren there to commence the conquest of  East Devon. Bring it on! And so to bed .

PS from Pat:
Several people have emailed us to say they cannot fathom out how to make comments on the blog.  Well our sooper dooper techie Pete says:
'if people want to add comments on your blog they have to create a Google account first. Then when you are writing your comment you choose Google from the drop down list. Its a bit temperamental though - sometimes you need to "submit" a couple of times before the confirmation screen pops up - where you will be asked to copy some letters. (It's the security thing that stops computers pretending to be people, remember I mentioned it??)

Creating a google account is simple; its just like creating a new hotmail email account for example.'
So, now you know!