Holiday doppelganger

From the verandah of this Landmark Trust cottage, I can see across the north Devon bay to the white Saunton Sands Hotel, maybe 20 miles distant. The sea is an uncharacteristic blue. The fractal coastline and the faded patchwork quilt of the far peninsula look like something out of a textbook on painting watercolours.

I have attended several pleasant residential courses at Saunton Sands Hotel. But it is rather odd sitting here, looking through binoculars at the …