730 days

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IMG_9705Two years, it doesn’t seem like a particularly long time, and yet when you’ve spent that significant chunk of your life with someone, it’s an important milestone. A and I have longed to get away and escape the monotony of everyday life and escape for a few blissful days so got busy googling. On a penny pinching budget, we found a fantastic deal for just £35 a night where we could have our own lodge, equipped with everything we could possibly hope for at Woodford Bridge. The website said that it should have been £145 per night and was reduced for a February offer – amazing bargain! No wonder we couldn’t resist booking off Monday from work to indulge in a 3 night break away in sunny (or not so sunny as it turns out…) North Devon.

730-days-clovelly-cottage-gallery730-days-clovelly-new-inn-sign-posts-stepsIMG_9674IMG_9772Somewhere we’ve been talking about going to for ages is the little seaside village of Clovelly. It was a blustery and grey Saturday in February but the weather didn’t deter us too much. Nearly being put off by the £6.75pp charge just to park and enter the village (something I didn’t even realise villages could do and which seemed quite extortionate for the season), I’m glad we decided to continue down the sloping cobbled hill and explore the area. *Hint: choose more sturdy shoes than black dollies to walk down a road made entirely from cobbles…lesson learnt…

730-days-clovelly-closeup-rope-stone-crab-pots-seashoreIMG_9703Clovelly is a quaint village brimming with little cottages nestled snugly side by side up the hill. For such a steep landscape, over the years that the village was built up, the space has been maximised to its full potential and locals have adapted their lifestyles to suit the slope – for instance, outside every house there were wooden and wire sledges for transporting goods up and down the cobbles. There’s nothing nicer than a morning enjoying boats, crab pots, a harbour wall and the low swish of waves crashing on a pebbled shore.

IMG_9743IMG_9737IMG_9748Our adventure to Clovelly was charming, and what nicer way to spend our 730th day together. The rest of the weekend involved some amazing food, a huge amount of sea foam, being blown off cliffs and a tiny wooden hut with an amazing history, but I’ll have to include that in a Part II…