Devon Holiday July 2003 - page 2
So our summer holiday continued in the attractive South
Hams area of Devon with a visit to Salcombe, followed by a yummy
evening meal cooked in our holiday cottage at Modbury, then a hot and
sticky walk from gorgeous Hope Cove via Milton Sands to Thurlestone
along more of the very scenic South West Coast Path.
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Day 3 and this was the only day of the holiday the Devon weather let us
down. We visited Salcombe and loaded up with yummy chocolate
after our visit to the Salcombe Chocolate Factory!
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Our Devon holiday cottage in Modbury had this split back door, just
like in the westerns! The small South Hams town of Modbury had
two pubs, a bistro, a convenience store, and a few postcard/gift shops.
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Belinda was supposed to be cooking the dinner, but got engrossed in her
magazine. The cottage was just right for the two of us, small but
comfortable and well located for touring the South Hams area of Devon.
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Cheers! We washed down our Spag Bol with a good wine which
nicely rounded off a hard day's touring in Devon. The tiny TV
picture was rather iffy, more so after fiddling with it to try to
improve things!
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This cat wanted lots of attention whenever we left or arrived at the
Modbury holiday cottage. It would follow us up the path, rollover
and want its tummy tickled.
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Another day, another walk, more Devon sun! We headed to Hope
Cove, where Mike spent a few memorable childhood family holidays, and
went into reminiscing mode! After a coffee and taking lots of
photos, we got walking along the South West Coast Path towards Milton
Sands and Thurlestone, and tested the range of our new talkie walkies.
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Before long we hit the vast sandy beach at Milton Sands and enjoyed our
picnic lunch in the even-hotter-than-yesterday sun. Now why can't
the weather always be this good on UK holidays?
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This Devon walk along the South West Coast Path turned out quite long
at 8 miles on such a hot day. We took a breather and looked out
towards Thurlestone, where the golf course seemed to go on forever.
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On the return leg to Hope Cove we stopped by the refreshment hut at
Milton Sands and the nice man in the kiosk took our picture.
Before long we hit the final straight along the South West Coast Path...
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...into Hope Cove and time for a well earned cooling dip in the
sea. Mike was pleased to see Devon's Hope Cove was much as he
remembered from the 70s.
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Arrggh! An ancient sea monster has just emerged from the sea at
Hope Cove! Belinda had a swim too, and in the evening we enjoyed
an excellent locally caught fish meal in the pub there before heading
back to the South Hams holiday cottage at Modbury.
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The South West Coast Path is England's longest National
Trail at some 630 miles and the south Devon section comprises 115
miles, so the part we walked barely scratched the surface! It's a
hugely popular path with walkers and cyclists due to the wonderful
coastal scenery in this part of South West England.
Related Devon websites are in our UK tourist resources plus we also
have some Devon holiday video clips.
Our holiday in south Devon continues on the next page
where we visit Bigbury, Burgh Island and Bantham
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