South West Coast Path

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    Day 39 Brixham to Babbacombe. (11 miles / 18 km)

    9 July 2026 - By 

     Day 39   Brixham to Babbacombe.   (11 miles / 18 km) After yesterdays walking the variety just keeps on coming – it’s such a change and  the next couple of days take on a very different feel as it’s off the cliffs and down to the seaside for much of the trail.   It’s a few days where I see more people in one day than I’ve seen in the past 39.   Not many of them in the same outfit as me.    It’s beach huts,  colourful beach windbreakers, icecream and buckets and spades…. it’s hiking promenade style.     Brixham marks the…

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    Day 38 Dartmouth to Brixham ( 10.9 miles / 17.5km)

    7 July 2026 - By 

     Day 38    Dartmouth to Brixham   ( 10.9 miles / 17.5km) This is a much talked about section – each person I chatted to in Dartmouth – ….here is the list ..the ladies at  the Singing Kettle, Emma the foot whisperer, the lovely people at The Browns (my Dartmouth digs) and the bar staff at The Floating Bridge (where I had my dinner) – they all said it.  This is a cracker of a walk.    Devonians are rightly proud of this section and the people of Dartmouth especially so as they are the gateway to it.  – and they…

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    Day 37 Torcross to Dartmouth (10 miles / 16.6km)

    6 July 2026 - By 

     Day 37   Torcross to Dartmouth (10 miles / 16.6km)   For a short day there is a lot to include.   A shorter distance but full of moments that will stay with me.     This was to be a day that should take about 5 hours and was rated ‘Moderate’.   There are only about 5 days on the whole walk rated Moderate so when they have come up I have taken the chance to get washing done, pay bills from home , do admin …  Today I would be walking into Dartmouth around 2ish.   I would have afternoon time.  Dartmouth is a…

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    Day 36 Salcombe to Torcross (13 miles / 21km)

    5 July 2026 - By 

     Day 36  Salcombe to Torcross  (13 miles / 21km) Like yesterday, this stretch of coast holds it’s own amongst South West Coast Path writers as a forerunner in of one of the most stunning sections.     Henry Stedman says “this stage will truly make your heart soar and stay in the memory long after you’ve finished”.     Henry is never prone to exaggerate so I started this day quick to get boots on and hurry down to the Fortescue Inn breakfast .   On a beautiful morning in Salcombe whilst having my 2 poached on toast, the Salcombe lifeboat crew piled…

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    Day 35 Bigbury On Sea (Bantham) to Salcombe (13 miles/21km )

    3 July 2026 - By 

     Day 35    Bigbury On Sea (Bantham)  to Salcombe   (13 miles/21km )   After the timed dash of yesterday it made me even more appreciative of a day when I was looking at all that was around me more than I was at the time .   I could stop to marvel when marvelling moments came along and thank goodness as this was a day for the marvelling.     It was a day of walking that has gone into the Most Memorable group.    If there is any stretch so far I would want to share with everyone so I could…

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    Day 34 Wembury to Bigbury on Sea ….(Bantham ) (14.25 miles / 23km)

    2 July 2026 - By 

     Day 34     Wembury to Bigbury on Sea  ….(Bantham )  (14.25 miles / 23km) I will remember this day on the South West Coast Path as the 3 river crossing Amazing Race day.   I woke early before my alarm today…because of tides.   Thats never happened to me before.   I had a quick breakfast of toast.      It was an Air B and B in a very limited food option stop.    The owner of this one hadn’t left any supplies like previous ones so I was left with the bread I’d grabbed just in case the day before.   …

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    Day 33 Plymouth to Wembury (13.5 miles / 22km )

    30 June 2026 - By 

     Day 33    Plymouth to Wembury (13.5 miles / 22km ) My alarm this morning was the Plymouth high pressure hose.     The street cleaners were cleaning up the England win as both the cloud and the hungover revellers lay low.     I went for my  breakfast included at The Three Crowns.    It was just me and the poor chef who must have lost a bet to get that shift.    I was sorry he was up at that hour but after having two of his absolutely perfect poached eggs I was delighted he was. The first 10 plus…

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    Day 32 Portwrinkle to Plymouth (13.5 miles / 22km)

    29 June 2026 - By 

      Day 32  Portwrinkle to Plymouth  (13.5 miles / 22km) This day marks  the end of a South West Coast Path chapter and the start of a new one.   The end of the Cornwall stage and stepping off a ferry into the South Devon one.  I was feeling like I wanted to put off the end – like slowing down at the last few chapters of really good book because you don’t want to leave the lives of the characters.     Cornwall has been all I imagined and more.    The walking is wild and rugged.   The terrain, it’s  gradients,…

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    Day 31 Palperro to Portwrinkle (12.5 miles / 20km)

    28 June 2026 - By 

     Day 31   Palperro to Portwrinkle  (12.5 miles /  20km) The storm had done the job of clearing the air and it was a fresh breezy start out of Polperro.   On the down side it had caused flooding in shops and no one had internet – the lady in the supermarket said she has been there 29 years and never seen a storm like it.    It struck me that I arrived here in record heat and left with an epic storm.  I am starting to worry I am some kind of weather witch and villages will no longer allow me…

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    Day 30 Rest Day – Polperro

    27 June 2026 - By 

     Day 30   Rest Day – Polperro  The sun shone all day for my second and final rest day – and this special place was ideal for the job!    This stunning town that you really do not see until you descend right into it, as I discovered yesterday,  is tucked away in between high hills and stretches out along two parallel roads from its harbour.  It was originally a fishing village but because of its hidden, isolated location it became the  smuggling headquarters with hidden tunnels running under the village coming out to the back of caves on its beach. …