A visit to our, once, home at the southern tip of Devon. It hasn’t changed much. We spent a while walking around Kingsbridge, commenting on the the few new shops and recalling what they replaced, then to South Milton sands (where we once had a cottage) and a walk along the coast path to Hope Cove. Lots of memories.
While we were in Kingsbridge we stocked up our seafood at the legendary Salcombe Smokies, including this huge crab:
Portishead Bowling Club seemed to be having a fine old time yesterday, down by the Lakegrounds. Maybe one day, but not yet.
Wallingford is in Oxfordshire, on the Thames, and we last visited it, we think, in 2010 when we walked the Thames Path. We stayed in the camper by the bridge to the east of the river, opposite the main town. It was very hot, maybe the last really hot days of Summer.
On the way home we had lunch by the River Kennet in Hungerford. Some sort of word association, I suppose.
Nice display of Bracket Fungus in Weston Big Wood (between Portishead and Weston in Gordano) this morning.
Well, hay rakin’. The meadow in the fabulous Penny Brohn Cancer Care Centre gardens in Pill, near us, was in need of some emergency composting work, so, as well as the usual expert gardening volunteers (Sally included), some additional heavy lifting was required (e.g. me).
Llansteffan is a little village on the west side of the River Tywi estuary, south of Carmarthen. It has everything a proper Welsh village needs, including a fantastic beach, pubs, cafes, fish and chip shop and a stonking great castle overlooking the whole place. On Wednesdays and Thursdays there is a mass cockle-picking/digging session out in the estuary.
Caen Hill Locks are a flight of 29 locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, between Rowde and Devizes in Wiltshire. A miracle of early 19th century engineering. There are some pictures of the locks from an earlier visit here https://martinsmag.com/2014/10/12/the-k-and-a/. Volunteers from the Canal and River Trust have been creating a new woodland area near the locks.
On our way back from Tewkesbury we detoured to Lydney Marina, on the Severn estuary. Although it’s only a 45 minute drive from home, neither of us could remember being there before. It’s another one of those slightly bonkers places, like Uphill or The Camargue.
A short visit to this historic town where the river Avon meets the river Severn.
Martin's Mag. 
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