Chloe Hadjimatheou

Ros Hemmings is very connected to Pulchelli, the place where Raina Wynne and Moth were living at the beginning of the salt path.

It's a market town of just over 4,000 people.

Raising a family there meant a quaint country life by the sea, nestled in the shadows of Snowdonia National Park.

Ros and her husband Martin had two daughters who enjoyed the freedom there they wouldn't have had in a big city.

Ros has short, curly salt-and-pepper hair and a warm, humorous glint in her eye.

She looks like someone who enjoys life and spends most of her time in a pretty jolly mood.

In many ways, this story, or my telling of it at least, starts with Ros.

And with her friend.

I knew Tim Walker first.

I worked for the National Trust at a property they have on the Thune.

And he was the gardener there.

So Tim Walker's going to end up a key character in this story.

But back then, he was just some guy Ros happened to work with.

So he would come and tell me about some of the plants.

Tim was married to Sally, a shy woman with wild frizzy hair.

She'd grown up in a hard-working family of farmers...

The couple had come to Wales from Staffordshire in the early 90s and bought a very old, rickety but charming farmhouse, a 20-minute drive from Porthelly.

In 2001, this is a few years after Ros and Tim started working together, he tells Ros that his wife Sally's looking for work.

Roz's husband, Martin, ran a property surveyor's and estate agent in Pulcheli.

It was more of a family business, really.