Monday 14th June

Rained overnight so a slow start this morning. We’ve been told about the ruined fishing village of Hallsands which is just beyond Beesands on the way to Start Point so decided to have a look first thing. Not a lot to see really as I guess most of it was washed away 100 years ago.
From there, it was a trek across the narrowest Devon lanes yet to Sharpham Vineyard for lunch, a tour round the vineyard and a cheese and wine tasting. We tasted 4 of their wines and enjoyed the white (sauvignon blanc style) best.
It used the Madeleine Angevine grape which I’ve never heard of – still very pleasant and we had a bottle of this with lunch. By the time we’d finished, it was too late to get to Buckland Abbey so we headed for Blackpool Sands where the Venus Café on the beach came highly recommended so we had a coffee looking out over the beach – beautiful.
Time to head back to the campsite via the Start Bay Inn at Torcross Point for a last cider before leaving Devon.