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ABIGAIL AHERN: A day in the country
Country Homes & Interiors
|February 2023
The designer and stylist sails, swims and sips wine at sunset in Salcombe
The magical clifftop walk near Salcombe, where the cliffs hug the coast, is how I spend a perfect day. It's the East Portlemouth & Gara Rock Walk, and my husband Graham and our two dogs will join me. Monkey is a mini schnauzer rescue with potentially a bit of poodle in him and Wyrtle has a Welsh Terrier mother; father unknown - we think sheepdog!
This story is from the February 2023 edition of Country Homes & Interiors.
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