The South west Coast Path
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Postcard index for my South West Coast Path Walk
Last night the Jones design team did a great graphic design of my walk complete with interesting facts. The design is currently been made into a physical postcard by VistaPrint. I intend sending a copy to every b&b I stayed at, as a lot of the owners expressed an interest in knowing whether I finished…
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My map of The South West Coast Path from my tracks.
Here is a map that Adze generated from all the data (about 70Mb) that my GPS collected each day as I walked the South West Coast Path, Adze displays each day walked as a different colour. Adze gives the following data: Total distance 1102.98km, duration 307 hours, distance climbed 47.6 km, max gradient 48 degrees,…
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Worth Matravers to South Haven Point on The South West Coast Path
One advantage of the Chiltern Lodge is that they do breakfast from 7.45 so you can escape get away early. So I was out on the road just after 8am. With it been an easy day, the guide said 16 miles to the end and ‘only’ 1768feet of ascent. I decided to do the decent…
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Weymouth to Worth Matravers on The South West Coast Path
What a day! Probably one of the toughest on the whole trail! I thought folks were kidding me when they said it was going to be tough. I did in total 24 miles with about a mile of vertical ascent! the 6 miles through the Lulworth ranges were simply amazing in terms of ascent /…
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Around the Isle of Portland on The South West Coast Path
Today was a slackpacking day 🙂 I left the Osprey Hornet 46 rucsac at Fosters and ventured out with my Sea to Summit daybag. I hopped onto a bus to take me to Ferry Bridge so I could walk along the old railway line by the road to Portland Bill. The Portland end has been totally revamped…
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Abbotsbury to Weymouth on The South West Coast Path
Not such a coastal walk today as the route takes you behind the vast shingle bank of Chesil Beach and Europe’s largest lagoon The Fleet. After a pleasant breakfast (with fresh fruit 🙂 )and homemade marmalade. I departed from The Peache’s. The route takes you past The Swannery then a meander through rolling fields, some…
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Lyme Regis to Abbotsbury on The South West Path
Woke up once again to sunshine & clear blue skies. I had a pleasant breakfast but I’m beginning to miss my fruit and kippers which seemed to have disappeared of the menu since leaving North Devon and St Ives. There have been a large number of landslides on the first part of the walk. I…
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Sidmouth to Lyme Regis on the South west Coast Path
Today marks the end of my fifth week on The Path and I’ve now covered 545 miles of the 630, so only 85 miles to go 🙂 I left Larkstone House after a humungous breakfast and what can only be described as a blast with a pressure jet shower, easily the most powerful one yet…
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Dawlish to Sidmouth on The South West Coast Path
Today started off as a low energy day, funny how buildings can do that to you. It didn’t get much better when I left and found it to be raining. 🙁 I continued walking along the coast wall between the sea and Gods Wonderful Railway as the GWR was known. at Dawlish Warren (an apt…
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Paignton to Dawlish on The South West Coast Path
Another brilliant sunshine day with no wind, that’s two in a row now 🙂 The day started with an easyish walk along The English Riviera past all the very English beach huts overlooking the red sands. Climbing out through the old gasworks, now skilfully converted into a park with the old gasometer basins made into pond…