Saturday 27th February and the planned route is the Sheepwash Trail – again! However, this time we will include the extra loop to make the walk 7 miles long.
Norman has started his training by walking the length of the breakwater in Brixham Harbour. This means he has walked about two miles! This is excellent considering his operation was only ten days ago.
It’s raining when we set off to Sheepwash. We leave nice and early so that we have plenty of time to do the walk and get to the pub for lunch again. It takes about 20 minutes to drive there from Dolton; on approaching the outskirts of Sheepwash I suddenly realise that I have forgotten to bring any money. This is quite an important omission due to the necessity of having lunch in the pub after the walk. We scrabble around in the car and in our pockets and manage to come up with about £11. Not enough for three hungry walkers so, with resignation, we turn around and drive back to Dolton to pick up some more.
Looking on the bright side, when we finally set off along the lane we notice that it has in fact stopped raining and the sun is coming out. There is, however, still plenty of mud to plough through.
The walk obviously follows the same route as previously, but goes somewhat more smoothly as we know where we are going this time. Somehow, though, we still managed to take longer and therefore, once again, did not add on the extra loop as this would have meant missing out on our pub lunch – a much deserved reward, especially as Alice had not yet experienced the delights of the Half Moon Inn panini.