It seems so long ago………………….and it has been, but hopefully I am now back on track. Two months to say goodbye to Mum but I think she’s still with me – in the sea spray, the sound of waves breaking on the rocks, the shy morning sun, the gentle rain and warmth of the colours of Autumn.

Much of the path today is stony and when skirting a sharp drop down to the sea it’s exciting. 

It is a beautiful day as I head down a quiet green lane, past the village church and onto a narrow tarmac road leading to Blackpool Sands. 

Damian has gone back to London early this morning and I must follow later in the day but I can just squeeze five miles in before I go.

It is promising to be another hot day as we walk up the road out of Brixham, past the long breakwater, in the direction of Berry Head Country Park.

We start where I finished last time, down the back of the Palace Hotel to the north east of Torquay. It is 10 am but already very hot and glimpses of a sparkling turquoise sea don’t make it any easier. We walk through woodland, past Hope’s Nose and Thatcher Rock, down to Meadfoot Beach where a few people are frolicking in the sea.