The South west Coast Path
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Stoke Fleming to Paignton on The South West Coast Path
After the mother of all sleeps at Fairholme I awoke for the first time, on this trip, to a glorious blue sky and no wind. After a lavish breakfast I was on my way. The first 4 miles to Dartmouth were OK, although I declined the option through the mud and followed a dog walker…
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Salcombe to Stoke Fleming on The South West Coast Path
No complaints about the weather today! mainly sunshine light winds pretty well perfect. After a hearty , if somewhat late breakfast, at The Ria View I took the£1.50 ferry across the estuary and started walking at 10am. I made excellent progress and soon caught up with the lads I met at the Avon ferry yesterday,…
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Bigbury On Sea to Salcombe on The South West Coast Path
Today was all about the weather, there was little else to see due to the very low cloud. At Bigbury you couldn’t even catch a glimpse of Burgh island. What I did see were the huge number of planning applications tagged to everything that couldn’t move, Cambridge may think it has a problem of over…
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Noss Mayo to Bigbury on Sea on The South west Coast Path
I awoke to the delicious smell of home made bread, a wholemeal loaf especially baked for me by Jackie, this combined with a fresh fruit salad with home made yogurt (Sally would really have loved) a bowl of steaming porridge plus two farm fresh eggs made a great start to the day. Which is more than…
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Plymouth to Noss Mayo on the South West Coast Path
I woke up from a terrible nights sleep with a thumping headache feeling awful. I popped some Nurofen but realised I was probably suffering from dehydration 🙁 I went into Plymouth bought some new inner socks and a 2 litre bottle of carbonated water (Why don’t shops /garages keep carbonated water in the chiller cabinets?…
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Looe to Plymouth on The South West Coast Path
Another long day with just under 19 miles walked and 4780 feet climbed! The Schooner Point gave me an excellent breakfast, I particularly liked the way all the homemade items were labelled and the way the cereals were stored in cavernous glass bottles with ladles. Very tidy & brand less 🙂 Since I left early it was…
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Charlestown to Looe on The South West Coast Path
Another epic day with around 24 miles covered at a very respectable speed of 2.7mph, given the over 5,000 feet climbed on the roller coaster section after Fowey, It was a another cloudy day with odd spells of sunshine later in the day but no wind. The path was very busy in places, well near car…
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South West Coast Path index to my blog posts
An index of all my blog posts for each stage of The South West Coast Path can be found here
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South West Coast Path – Portloe to Charlestown
An excellent day’s walking of 20 miles and ascended height of just under 6000 feet 🙂 with an overall average speed of 2.2mph (including stops). A cloudy day with some mist the sun came to join me at lunch time but rapidly disappeared again to be replaced by a heavy shower at the end. But…
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Falmouth to Portloe on The South West Coast Path
Today started with two ferry crossings both costing £4 single! The first was a mega journey of 16 minutes the second taking less than 10mins. The day’s walking started in the sleepy hamlet of Place where you are carefully directed around the back of Place House so the owners can avoid the inconvenience of looking…