At the moment I am not populating the event page of the Sandays website because the never-ending uncertainty around covid regulations is making it difficult to be sure of anything actually going ahead! However there are some things happening this summer despite it all, and one such was Toby’s Garden Festival at Powderham this weekend. This event usually takes place at the beginning of May and of course it was organised a bit differently to meet all the current guidelines, but remained a great place to be. Seemed to be popular as ever and some people were much better organised than I was with a trolley to put their purchases in!
Well done to Toby and everyone involved in making it happen: not easy these days!

What a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend with lots of warm sunshine for everyone to enjoy! Lots of people here to make the most of it. Low tide around Red Rock in the sunshine, what could be better?!

Noticed the first honeysuckle in the hedges over the last few days too.

Delighted to say that Sandays has re-opened and we would love to hear from you.

We made many changes to our usual routines last year to help us keep covid free. These will remain in place in line with on-going government restrictions, aiming to help keep everyone safe.

We are not taking deposits this year so all bookings can be changed or cancelled with the minimum of fuss. 

Dawlish and much of Devon has been consistently well below national levels of covid infection and we are confident that you will have a safe and enjoyable time with us. 

It is great to see everything gradually opening up again around here, even if we are not allowed to join in yet! The sunny dry weather has helped people to be outside and we seem to be heading in the right direction. Of course it always is always possible here to seek out the quiet places and enjoy the countryside and beaches, social distancing is not too difficult!

Happy Easter! I hope you are enjoying the Spring as much as we are. There is a glorious abundance of Camellias and Magnolias at the moment which look amazing. Some of the daffodils are hanging on and the first bluebells are out, alongside vast numbers of primroses everywhere! It is all rather beautiful .

We enjoyed walking the length of the Holcombe / Teignmouth sea wall today, continuing along onto the sand spit until stopped by the Teign making its busy way into the sea. There was a seal on the beach posing for photos, always a great sight. The back beach at Teignmouth is always a favourite and we look forward to seeing the whole place burst fully into life again soon when restrictions ease. We can’t wait!

Cruise ships have become a familiar sight around our coast during the pandemic, up to 6 visible regularly from our local beach. Over this last week or so however we have had the even stranger phenomenon of ships floating in the air … an optical illusion of course!

Known as thermal inversion or a cold water mirage, it can happen when the difference between the air temperature and the sea temperature is large. There is abnormal refraction where light bends downwards towards the colder and more dense air near the sea, causing distant objects to look higher.

We saw this floating ship as we walked along a footpath above Teignmouth, heading back towards the golf club and Little Haldon. One of a number of beautiful blue Spring days with birdsong and blossom brightening up covid blight!

Government announcements this week have made clear the intention to allow B&Bs to re-open on Monday May 17th 2021.

We will continue to take no deposit, non-binding bookings for the remainder of 2021 and hope you will be in touch soon.