After hiding by the fire from this weeks icy winds and snow it was good to be out on the road again for a bright frosty walk. It is only about five weeks until I set out on my "Long Walk" from Helston to Crediton. Training is therefore required to get my feet toughened up again. Today's training route heads through woodlands and eventually picks up the coastal path just after the Donkey sanctuary before descending to sunny Sidmouth. In the shady woods the ferns are 50 shades of green and I pass a dead badger who had a sinister smile on his face as he lays in the ditch at the side of the road.Heading out of Beer I pass Pecorama a place where model railways abound and take the footpath to Branscombe. The woods above Branscombe are magical with wild garlic and bluebells just starting to emerge. I take the path through the Donkey Sanctuary and my eyes are drawn to the trees with small plaques placed next to them. The messages on them tell stories about people and animals who were loved and are now dead,and departed to the "Saints Everlasting Rest". My eyes by now have tears in them and I have to endure a half a mile or so of this torture of those departed.
The coastal path is now reached and the footpath winds down into Sidmouth. I find somewhere for some soup and a coffee and catch the roller coaster bus home, weaving through narrow lanes and eventually arriving at Seaton. I feel somewhat travel sick but perhaps on reflection I should not have had that large ice cream!
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