We went for a morning walk with our friends around their part of Taunton and then we for North Devon where we had arranged to meet my wifes cousin and her husband, who we had also not seen in a long time.
On the way there, we stopped off at Saunton Beach for anther walk and some fresh sea air. This is a fantastic beach - wide, long, smooth sand and not that many people, or at least its size swallowed the people who were there. Its extremely flat so the tide goes out a long way and, I suspect back in again extremely quickly.
We could tell it was popular with surfers whilst we were still in the carpark - lots of wetsuits and VW camper vans. We could see why as the beach was extremely windy, which was great for the kite surfers and meant there were lots of waves for the normal (??) surfers.
We went for a walk and had a look around one of the two surf shops, although there was nothing there for those of us from Hertfordshire.
wifes cousin lived just a short drive away in Croyde. We were thrilled to be given homemade scones, clotted cream and jam. These went down very nicely, thank you, and it would have been rude to to Devon and not had We did have a little concern - in Devon is it cream first and then the jam (or is that Cornwall). Apparently, that can be a serious error around here. It is cream first by the way, so we managed to avoid causing any offence.
We were well into the scones when her husband got back from his day at work, in and a wetsuit. He teaches surfing. After a lot of all four of us walked off the along the short path behind their and down to the beach. Ill think of them when Im back in my office in Hertfordshire or rather, given the stuck at home endlessly staring at a laptop all day.
We were spending the night in nearby We went for yet another walk, although that was the pretence to actually get some fish and chips. We found somewhere to eat in doors
as it was pouring with rain by that point. Despite the rain, we went we explored needed to our fish and chips with a short, wet and windswept walk around the harbour.
