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A JHIP TO EUROPG Eighteenth "article in a series by Miss Margaret Laindy, ~ THE ATLANTIC COAST i The Atlantic coast from the Bristol Channel to Lands End is a trip I'd recommend ee anyone for variety and rugged beauty. We'd gladly have spent a month at it rather than a few days, Our last stop on the channel was at Minehead, not an attractive name, but a most attractive town built on the cliff side. The older sections of the town were detted with soft, velvety, grey and brown thatched roofs with a patter woven around the edge. All thatches are covered with a coarse wire netting to keep the wind fron uplifting part of the straw - the birds from nesting. They must be replaced every 10 to 20 years. Here we have mostly lawns with, small gardens but in Minehead gardens of roses, hollyhocks, Caisics and all abounded with little room left for lawns, On the north coast of..Devon the big sand beaches and sailing boats in the caves at Ilfracombe and Combe Martin looked most inviting in the warm July sun. The toughest climb we had other than for the Kirkstone Pass in the Lake District was up Perlock Hill which rises "1 in d 4" said a sign, .I'm not just sure what dat means but it certainly was a steep hill all 23 miles of it. There were danger signs all along the way to pedestrians to be careful of cars out of control, Half wey up we halted to get a beautiful view back over the cliffs and sands of Porlock Bay, The water was very blue with the white surf sparkling in the sum. We sat down on the bank at the side of the road and picked handfuls of blue berries which looked like ours but hadn!t that aweet flavour. I believe these were vervttle berries. An approaching bus was our solution to the problem of the rest of the 4171 ~ the only disillusionment being that our fare was the same as. if we'd bearued at the bottom - after all that Wwe rk Many of you have Jeebasiae heard of Clovelly, a little fishing village at the foot of the cliffs. Long steep winding steps lead into the village so: steep that. sure footed donkeys are. the best-and only means of transportation. It is quite an attraction for tourists{ Continuing along the coast we drove through Lynton and Lynmouth which you may remeber reading about in August of '51 when they suffered tremendous damage when (Cont. on next col.) day, May 7th, at two-thirty. Page 7 , A TRIP TO EUROPE (Cont, ) a now small and innocent looking river, ; |, coming down through the cliffs, overflowed fj its banks; at the same time tidal waves rose over the sea wall washing away hotels, bridges and homes. By coincidence a London couple, whom we know well, were holi- daying there at the time and were marooned on the second floor of a hotel watching people and cars being carried away by the waves and not knowing whether they themselves would be the next to go until a rescue party reached them the next day. It will be many years before all the damage can be repaired and these twin towns gain back their status as popular summer resorts.~ ie An Australian sheep farmer picked us up about here, movie camera and all, who had flown over from Australia for a months holi- days in England. He told us some wild and wooly tale about racing kangaroos at 40 M.P.H. and eating steaks topped with fried eggs for breakfast, That night we spent in Tintagel on the Cornish Coast which is more. rugged than Devon. To find the hostel we left the town crossing a monr, past a very desolate churchyard overgrown with wild grain blowing in the wind, to the edge of the cliff. The hostel had-been a lookout base during the Battle of Britain - just a . small, well concealed, building on the slate cliff, with a sheer drop to the churning sea below, A few hundred yards to the north is Glebe Cliff, almost surrounded: by the sea, on which lies the ruins of King. 'Arthur's. castle, This coastline abounds with caves ©. in the slate rock with floors of smooth coloured pebbles and -plastic-like sea weei- a wonderful world for people who like ex-. pléring. It brings to mind those story books of English boys and girls who take _ Picnics into caves forgetting' about' the tide 'until 'they find themselves surrounded and their adventures in getting safely back home, 0-0-0 PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS May we remind you" once again that we are registering all kindergarten children after school this week, Please bring along some ~ proof of age' for your child. Miss Honer will give a talk for all parents of prospective kindergarten children on Fri-- She will accompany her talk with slides of the class in action, 0-0-0