Very busy at the moment, other half is out there collecting census forms, boy is he gong to know his way around here when he's finished! For those more urban dwellers out there Ilfracombe is, as it's name suggests, a steep valley leading down to the sea, combe meaning valley, There isn't any part of the town that isn't up (or down depending where you start) a steep hill.
Ilfracombe seen from the churchyard part way up the Slade valley, where we live.
Ilfracombe, seen from a headland just outside it on the Combe Martin Road
Of course it's quite sprawly too, so the area he covers has small farms and isolated cottages, there are obscure little alleyways, and cottages behind big hotels, making it impossible to find them without the help of a friendly postie. He's also collecting out in Lynton and Lynmouth. Now when you look at a map, if it doesn't have contour lines, they look as if they are right next door, in fact you might wonder why they are two separate places,
until you get there and find that 700 hundred foot cliff that actually separates them!
This is Lynmouth Harbour, way up behind those trees is Lynton, accessed via an amazing water powered
cliff railway, unless you want to be boring and drive!
