Walkers Honesty Box Cafe

Life is full of wonderful surprises, and here is a fine example. One of our lovely guests arrived at St Vincent’s B&B and said that on her way from Porlock to Lynmouth along the South West Coast Path, she stopped short and saw a box with all sorts of refreshments, flasks and cups with a note saying: “Walkers Honesty Café. Please give what you can.” We posted the pictures on Facebook and quickly discovered that the lovely couple who do this philanthropic gift are the Gurneys. Julian Gurney wrote on our page “Glad you like it. Mrs Gurney puts it out, proceeds go to feeding the woodland birds”.

The café featured recently in a Times article called “A good walk: Foreland and coast path, north Devon”. The journalist writes: “In the cleft of Glenthorne cliffs we passed a walkers’ honesty café — tea, coffee, mugs, milk, a Thermos of hot water and some chocolate bars on a picnic table. ‘What a treat to find in the middle of nowhere!’ Colin and Adrian had written in the comments book. ‘It made us laugh and smile! Thank you!’”

Thank you indeed! Don't forget to be pleasantly surprised when you walk along that stretch of the path, leave a note and a donation.

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