We’re sat, sleet-soaked & steaming, by a fortuitously found fire in the Golden Hind Inn at Woolacombe – my mind wanders back along the paths that brought us here: passed huge jellyfish-grey clouds dragging their damp tendrils over Morte Point; through golden gorse valleys, the weather changing the landscape’s mood like a passing thought changing [...]
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Map One, Day 1 to Day 4.
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04/04/08, The Cave of Indecision.
Stuck in a damp crack with a cold Cat, making a nest from last season’s fern after sweeping out the feral devil’s dumplings. Shattered from yesterday’s epic trek from our castle-fort in Tangled Wood to the village inn at Lynmouth. A walk described as ‘moderate’ in our faithful guide, estimated to take 5.5 hours; it [...]