Walk to Killerton and Broadclyst

Despite having agreed to today's walk, I was initially rather reluctant and tried to cry off. Fortunately, Dr S refused to accept my lame excuses and so I got to spend a nice day walking through some really attractive parts of Devon only a handful of miles from the centre of Exeter. We were luckier than I'd anticipated with the weather: we got caught by a couple of short, sharp showers but the rest of the time the weather was warm and overcast — good for those of us prone to sunburn, although I suspect I might caught the sun in a couple of places where suncream and hat failed provide sufficient cover.

Our route took us across the university campus, round through Stoke Woods (I think), to Huxham and through Columbjomb Wood to Killerton House, where we stopped for a refuel. After tea and a rest, we set off south east, crossed the M5 via a footbridge and skirted round the field to arrive at our eventual destination, the Red Lion in Broadclyst, a little after 5pm.

After being joined by a couple of non-walkers, we had an enjoyable pub supper before eventually making our way home by taxi — actually cheaper, for a group, than the bus. Due to an unfortunate glitch with the cab, those of us unable to fit in the non-walkers' car found ourselves stuck in the pub for an unexpected half hour waiting for our lift to turn up, arriving back in town by 11pm.

And so, for the early birds among us, to bed...