Wednesday 2nd April 2025

By: Mike

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Branscombe to Seaton 4 miles

John drives us back to Branscombe.  It is such a luxury not having to worry about buses or taxis.  It is another brilliantly sunny day, but the wind is cold.  I have found another pair of sunglasses lurking in the car, but I forgot to fill my water bottle.  As it’s a shortish walk today, I decide to soldier on.  We are on the path by 10.30.  We are faced with an immediate steep climb up East Cliff.  After that it is an easy cliff top walk in wide-open grass past Beer Head and down into Beer.  My grandfather’s name was George Beer Brokenshaw.  There must be a connection, but I don’t know what it was. 

We have coffee at the (open!) beach café.  They only do instant, for which they charge £7.00.  It is worth it to sit out in the sunshine sheltered from the wind.  I buy a small bottle of water - £2.20.

We crack on to Seaton, taking quite a big diversion caused by a road collapse.  So many diversions.  I have taken some pictures for the blog entry about the state of the path in this sector.

We are already on the beach at Seaton by 1.40 and eat our lunch there.  We know that John has a busy day getting the glamping site ready for its Easter opening.  We are reluctant to call him away so early, so we mooch about and do a bit of shopping at Aldi.  Seaton has never had the cachet of Sidmouth, even though it has a fine beach.  But it is marred by a sea wall which cuts it off from the town.  John picks us up at 3.30.

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