travel blog
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Day 18 on the South West Coast Path. Porthcurno to Penzance
After an excellent, if with a somewhat loquacious host, at the luxurious Wearhouse. I wandered around the outside of the Old Telegraph Station marvelling how it takes so long for ‘secret’ places to come out of the woodwork and wondering when the TAT14 landing and GCHQ monitoring station will similarly be celebrated over on the other…
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South West Coast Path – Pendeen to Porthcurno
A much better walking day today. Light winds and only the threat of rain, in fact the sun popped out at various intervals. The walk started in the industrial wastelands around Pendeen and the Geevor Tin mine which had me thinking how does The National Trust handle highly toxic & radioactive industrial waste 🙂 I met…
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South West Coast path – St Ives to Pendeen
I really cannot thank Tim of Cornerways enough for getting his dentist to see me so quickly (the ones I phoned wanted 4 weeks notice), he not only took me there but had to wait whilst I had an X-ray and the tooth’s extraction (what an expensive tooth that has been, with capping root canal…
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A rest day and 14 days on The South West Coast Path
Today I’m taking a rest day in the pleasant town of St Ives, enjoying the hospitality of the owner of Cornerways, Tim after first rescuing him from paying a fortune for a .mobi url!! After our little drinks session last night I couldn’t face a mega breakfast (tomorrow will be different) so today it was…
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How long should a pair of hiking boots last?
I bought my latest pair of Scarpa Terra GTX boots, from Open Air in Cambridge, UK on the 7th April 2012 for over £120 (the price has rocketed recently since they moved production back to Italy from Romania) , in preparation for walking the whole of The South West Coast Path which is just over 1000km…
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Day 14 South West Coast Path – Portreath to St Ives
14 walking days 232 miles walked and 398 miles to go on The South West Coast Path! Once I stirred from my pretty expensive room with no exterior window at the Cliff House. I could see I might be lucky with the weather and have a fine day 🙂 The walk started with a stiff…
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Day 13 South West Coast Path – Pentire Point West to Portreath
First welcome to at least two more readers. Ann who left a comment on the previous post and Mike of Luggage Transfers. Today was AWFUL weather it rained heavily in the night, at breakfast the skies looked more welcoming. Just after Holywell Beach I bumped into my first South West Coast Path hiker slackpacking from…
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Day 12 South West Coast Path – Porthcothan to Pentire Point West (Holywell)
First thanks must go to the great guy who runs The Kandi Lodge in Newquay, the other end of the holidaying spectrum to the Atlantic View but ideal for youngsters hen & stag parties or so it says on the door 🙂 and for £20 a night with no breakfast a good deal. The Station…
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Day 11 South West Coast Path – Padstow to Porthcothan
First many thanks to Sally‘s relations Jean, Mick & Archer, well not Archer who is a humungous dog, for putting up with me at such short notice 🙂 Off to a bit of a late start as I had a load of WordPress sites to update to the latest release and we had to drive…
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Day 10 South West Coast Path – Trebarwith Strand (Treknow) to Rock (Padstow)
166.8 miles walked 463.2 miles to go Weather wise todays walk started in much better conditions with spells of sunshine and very low wind but then later it deteriorated to heavy showers. I met my first real walkers today, a couple with their dog walking from Lands End to John O’Groats 🙂 So still no South West…