There are lots of shops in Salcombe.  Jack Wills and Quba hail from this town in addition to the yacht shops of Musto, Henry Lloyd and so on.  We were fairly busy swimming and sailing and pottering so we didn’t take much advantage of the shops.  If it had rained, well that’s another story.

Jack Wills, Quba, White Stuff, Musto, Fat Face, Sea salt… all are here with full racks of clothes and the usual summer sales.  The special shops are Jack Wills and Quba as they were founded in the town so there were additional lines here that you can’t get in other shops.

There was a good chandlery tucked away beside the main car park with an aladdin’s cave of chandlery bits and pieces.  My favourite shop was the RNLI shop and I bought a tea-towel and a mug with the international code of signals so I can ‘mug up’ on the signs.

Sadly, I couldn’t find a good bookshop, stationers or supermarket.  If the tides had been in our favour I would have also gone up river to Kingsbridge where there’s a market and a full range of shops.