Tag: English Riviera

Summer time Mocha – July 2025

Mocha is a little doggy from Shanghai, China. Twelve years after her rescue from living in a park in Pudong, she’s living the high life in Torquay, South…

Summer time in South Devon

Last July I spent three weeks at Mum’s in Torquay, a stretch of time that felt like a proper pause. Nothing overplanned, just easy days strung together. We…

Paignton Beach

Paignton Pier sits in the haze of a warm afternoon, the smell of chips and seaweed drifting along the promenade. Down on the sand, the little ice cream…

Best of 2018 – Part 4 The English Riviera

Visiting Mother in Torquay.