{"id":6825,"date":"2018-07-01T22:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prikanowski.nl\/swcp\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2018-07-01T22:05:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T20:05:26","slug":"20180701-slapton-dartmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devoortsoftware.nl\/swcp\/20180701-slapton-dartmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"20180701 Slapton – Dartmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Date: 20180701<\/p>\n

Time:\u00a010:15 – 14:25<\/p>\n

Distance: 16.2 km<\/p>\n

Stay:\u00a0Cherubs Nest B&B, Dartmouth<\/p>\n

Walk<\/h4>\n

\"\"It is raining pipe stalks (cats and dogs) during breakfast. According to the weather forecast, it would be dry around 11 o’clock (or at least dryer). I do not have that much patience, however, and I start walking as soon as it is dry.
\nUnfortunately, that only lasts a few minutes …<\/p>\n

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I walk back to the sea and the Coast Path. Then it goes on with the boring part of yesterday. I can walk better here, in the middle of the road that is closed anyway. There is no road anymore in various places.<\/p>\n

If you consider all these things, sinking roads, villages that disappear into the sea and cliff erosion, you realize that England is getting smaller and smaller…<\/p>\n

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The beach where I walk here was used by the Americans in 1943 to practice for D-Day (30,000 troops and 16,000,000 tons of equipment). The people here were told that within 6 weeks they had to pack their things and have to be gone. Only about a year later, after D-Day they were allowed back again. There is a monument here to commemorate that and as a thank you to the sacrifice of the inhabitants.<\/p>\n

After a quiet climb I arrive in Strete. Here I pass the village shop and fill up my water supply and I buy a cold juice. Because although I am completely wet, I feel very warm with my coat on.<\/p>\n

\"\"After Strete I walk through several meadows for a while. One of those meadows goes down very steeply and then almost as steep up again. Fortunately, in the course of time a kind of footstep emerged. Otherwise I would have had a challenge with the current weather on the wet slippery grass.<\/p>\n

\"\"In one of the last meadows I suddenly look out over Blackpool Sands. Here I walk to and in the beach cafe it is time for coffee. When I take off my coat, I’m just as wet.
\nAfter the break, I leave off my coat. It is now dry and I hope that stays that way.<\/p>\n

\"\"While a faint sunshine appears, I walk over tarmac roads to Little Dartmouth. From there it goes more along the coast. At a certain point, that changes into a forest walk to the Dartmouth castle. I walk past it and it is only a short distance to Dartmouth. The sun is shining now.<\/p>\n

\"\"I arrive in Dartmouth well in time and in the meantime I have dried up almost completely. The B&B is quickly found, but it is still too early. Therefore, first a few pints in the pub next to it.<\/p>\n

Weather<\/h4>\n

The day started with rain. The first hour it rained almost continuously. Then it became dry, except for one short period of light rain. By midday the sun came through a bit and later the sky turned completely blue.
\nThere was also a lot of wind on the coast today. That could have been very cold without my raincoat.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t

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