Tuesday. I start the day quietly on the sofa listening to the sea and downloading photos of yesterdays walks as the WiFi seems to have recovered.

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The sun appears , as does my partner and so the day begins but not before I read some Pablo Neruda. We breakfast late and then we go to buy todays papers, returning to read them on the patio with fresh coffee. Its a slow morning till we eat rolls for lunch. We agree the afternoon walk and get ready with supplies and towels. We walk and walk and walk and walk the length of the beach until we find a point to breach the pebble ridge. We walk back across the burrows to the closest ice cream van. We sit and eat ice cream before walking back to our apartment. We sit on the patio with coffee and scones to recover. Once rested we go in search of postcards. We find them but in a closed shop, so it will be a tomorrow job. We cook dinner and watch athletics and programmes about Hemmingway, before I return to the blog.