Easter Prawle

Believe it or not, some visitors prefer to rent a holiday cottage in East Prawle during the Easter holidays rather than the high summer weeks - spring has well and truly sprung and the glorious South West Coast Path is putting on a fine display: the cliffs speckled with sea pinks, vivid golden gorse and starry, violet-blue spring squill, muddy footpaths are drying out and the woods are carpeted with English bluebells and wild garlic. While Prawle and this side of the Salcombe estuary never seem to be particularly overrun with hordes of visitors, it has to be said that the pace is gentler in the spring, the lanes are less busy and the locals even more welcoming!

After a service at the beautifully atmospheric Chivelstone Parish Church, the village is the place to be on Easter Day when the Pig’s Nose Inn puts on an egg-rolling competition in which painted eggs attempt to wobble their way to victory down the hill outside the pub before being eaten by the various dogs that line the course. Easter bonnets are paraded around often accompanied by a reggae soundtrack for no particular reason and everyone is very jolly!

So, while the holiday cottages at Prawle Point still have Easter availability, why not come and book in for a week or even two and welcome back the spring with cliff walks and beach picnics with family and friends.