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Across from North View Steps
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Fishing Boats
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I was contacted by our lovely friend Tanya a couple of
months ago. Over the past couple of years, she’s made very generous comments
about my drawings and was now suggesting that Moira+I might like to stay at
their Brixham house in exchange for some drawings of the town…
As you might
imagine, it was no contest!! |
Harbourside Facades
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New Quay Inn, King Street
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What a wonderful opportunity to spend time in a beautiful
Devon fishing port - overlooking the harbourside, the marina and the rows of
hillside houses (she sent us some stunning photographs taken from her property…
just in case we had any doubts - we didn’t!)!
I ended up completing eight drawings in total and have,
with Tanya’s agreement, posted them here in their entirely (I’d previously only
posted extracts on my “one day like this” blog – double click on the individual
images to enlarge).
Well, we’ve now returned from our week in Brixham and it
really did prove to be a lovely time – we were very fortunate with the weather
and we’d forgotten just how beautiful the town was (it was a few decades since either
Moira or I had last visited!).
The views from the house’s living room windows were
spectacular – overlooking the harbour, the
marina and the busy fishing fleet. It reminded us of the views from another
favourite seaside upper floor living room - at Upper Saltings in St Ives (where
one could happily stare out at the ocean for hours on end!). Absolutely
mesmerising. |
Overgang
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Quay Facades
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Tanya’s house was ideally located – just a three minute
walk to the harbour or the marina (admittedly down lines of steep steps, but
hey!) and within 10 minutes you could easily be walking along the sea
wall/breakwater to the small, white lighthouse. Lots of excellent restaurants
and cafés (eg. we enjoyed a very good supper at the Rockfish restaurant and an
equally good breakfast at the Breakwater Café!). We also met up with our great
friends Gail+Ian in Totnes and visited the National Trust’s Greenway (former
summer home of Agatha Christie) – in the case of the latter, partly via steam
train! Lots of excellent coastal walks too: we walked to Berry Head (30
minutes) and also beside the sea in the other direction to The Grove woodland
(again, say 30 minutes).
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Harbour Boats and Houses
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Marina
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After this very enjoyable experience, we’re now looking
for more lovely friends who have properties in Venice… or Florence… or Tuscany…
or the west coast of Ireland… or (as you can see, we’re not fussy!).
Life is tough.
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