To save money, they sleep wild as often as they can. Raynor and Moth set out with the bare essentials: backpacks, sleeping bags and a tent. The myriad bays and coves, once the hangout of smugglers and wreckers, draw artists and craftspeople from around the United Kingdom and beyond.
This is magnificent country: it’s a land of beauty, of history, and of legend – Tintagel Castle in Cornwall has long been linked to King Arthur and his knights. The South West Coastal Path runs for 630 miles, from Minehead in Somerset, through Devon and Cornwall, to Poole in Dorset. “We could just walk,” Raynor suggests to her husband.Īnd so Raynor and Moth decide to walk England’s South West Coastal Path.
Hiding under the stairs as the bailiffs pound on the door, they reflect on their options: they have no money and no home. In 2013, Raynor Winn and her husband, Moth, suffer two terrible blows to their way of life: Moth is diagnosed with a terminal illness and the couple is evicted from the home where they have lived all their married lives.
