By: Blonde Two
Sunday breakfast, I feel, is a meal best taken in unusual places. Bed for example (even better if someone fetches it for you), in the bath (best if you are eight months pregnant and can balance cornflakes on your tummy) or huddled behind a gorse bush on Dartmoor.
Of course, it is also perfectly acceptable to take your Sunday breakfast in a harbour-side cafe, in your home town. Which is what Mr B2 and I decided to do last weekend. It is a short trot down the hill from our house into town … but, there is a longer and much more pleasing circular route; I mapped it out for you on Ordnance Survey’s online mapping (one of our Champion Gifts).
It is interesting to look at an urban map and find places that you might want to walk. The layout of the roads on this one follow the hill contours (there are many); we aren’t all lucky enough to have a section of the South West Coast Path on our route into town, but I bet you could find footpaths and green spaces on yours that you haven’t explored before. Here are a few highlights of my Get Outside for Sunday Breakfast adventure (thanks to Mr B2 for photos).
One of the advantages of urban walking is the shops; if you think your actual breakfast is too far away, you can grab a pre-breakfast snack on the way past.
I told you, look for the green bits on the map. They are all the more lovely for being stuck between buildings!
Okay, so I am quite lucky to have this within two kilometres of home (even luckier to have found some sunshine!)
The South West Coast path between Babbacombe and Torquay; and yes, the sea here is often that colour.
Berry Head (the southern lip of Torbay) in the distance. We were watching the rain clouds and trying to predict where they were going next.
Torquay harbour; I am admiring my Valentine’s Day present. Mr B2 is hopefully admiring my bottom!
So there you have it! Next time you fancy breakfast in town, get out a map and plan a walking route. Here are the numbers for ours, but it doesn’t matter what the numbers are. All that matters is whether or not you Get Outside.
You might want to hear about the delicious breakfast that we imbibed upon our eventual arrival in town; I can’t tell you about it because we didn’t get there until after 12:00. Lunch however was great!
There is a bunkhouse just off your map at SX 912 642 (red square) – you could have made that into an overnight trip? Also, just to the north-west of your start/finish you have a trig point at SX 911 654; have you ever visited it?
Wouldn’t recommend the bunkhouse, looks a bit seedy to me and not in a pretty location. Our house is much nicer! The trig point interests me because we used to walk the dog up there all of the time and I don’t remember it. Will go a-searching! There is another one on the golf course northish which our DofE youngsters always have to look for.