Calor Gas Village of the County

For our walk today we drove 25 miles away to the Bigbury area of Devon - an area of exquisite villages, and wild coastline. We set off from Ringmore, and passed through the tiny village of Kingston, a previous winner of Calor village of the year, hinting at the main source of power. The pub looked inviting but was not open. Even so it made your heart sing just to look at it. Opposite, was the icing on the cake- the village reading room, established in 1912. I will have to wait for my numbers to come up to afford to live here. Lunch was by the sea, followed by the difficult bit for me, the strenuous ups and downs of the South West Coast Path. I was conscious that other walkers in our group-the youth section in their sixties- are having to wait for me. When we could see Burgh Island (extra) Agatha Christie’s inspiration for ‘And then There were none’ , we turned inland back to Ringmore and Journey’s End, which is the name of it’s pub, because it was in the village inn that the famous play of that name was written. We decided to get nearer home for a drink and the eight of us piled into the very comfortable and roomy Seven Stars at Totnes and thanked our lucky stars for a glorious walk together again.