Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Looking west from Golden Cap
View looking east towards Golden Cap, Dorset
We are having such fantastic weather for October it feels just like the end of summer. Yesterday's walk took us from the woodland parking area behind the woods on the hilltop horizon in this picture along the clifftops and up to Golden Cap. The previous day's views from St Catherine's Chapel had been lovely overlooking the low rolling hills towards the sea, but the views from Golden Cap were absolutely spectacular. Not only could we see Lyme Regis to the west lying snug in its bay, but far beyond to the faint and hazy coast where Exmouth sparkled in the sun and then even further to the shore of south Devon; using binoculars we could even make out the town of Paignton! It is 32 years since I visited Paignton and I saw it again yesterday from the rather greater distance of about 30 miles.
I had a strange feeling of seeing across a great distance to a town I'd once visited, but also looking at it through time. I doubt back in 1975 when I walked along a cliff top above Paignton, Devon that it would have occurred to me that so many years later I would look towards that coast from a far away hill and reflect back. Maybe if I look in the other direction now, I'll see where I shall eventually stand and look back at my lovely walk on Golden Cap in the golden light of an amazing warm October day.
