The South west Coast Path
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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…
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Day 9 South West Coast Path – Crackington Haven to Trebarwith Strand (Treknow)
149 miles walked 481 miles to go (Average 16.5 miles a day) A thank you to Keith and his 14 year od son for his email about the walk 🙂 A fine walking day today a bit breezy with a cold wind, so ideal walking weather. I must have met at least 20 day walkers,…
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Cracking onto Crackington Haven only 495 miles to go.
495 miles to go on The South West Coast Path. Firstly many thanks to all the new visitors that came from this tweet: [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/swcoastpath/status/192577773414518785″] and also many thanks to Betty & Chris for the lovely email sent after I met them in the woods atop Clovelly Today started of very miserable & wet (both…
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The South West Coast Path – First week
Today marks the first 7 days of walking The South West Coast Path. The Path starts in Minehead goes along the coast to Lands End then returns along The english Channel to end in Poole Harbour a distance of 630 miles. In my first week I’ve covered 109 miles according to The trail Guide 2012…
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Day7 on the South West Coast Path – Hartland Quay to Bude
506 miles to the end. Boy, what weather! My head is till throbbing from my ears taking such a beating, at one point I had to hang onto the wooden post, it must have been a mini whirl wind, Rain squalls kept me busy covering the camera. The worst was the hailstorm, no doubt unleashed…
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Day 6 on the South West Coast Path – 521 miles to go.
A bit of a slow and tiring walk today especially that I only covered 10 miles 🙁 The hills are now very short and very steep with quite a few having steps. I find the steps really tiring as they are rarely ever made with a decent going/riser ratio (The stair going to riser ratio…
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Day 5 on the South West Coast Path and 531 miles to go.
Oh dear looking at the guide today, it says today walk was Week 2 Day 1 whereas its only my Week 1 day 5 🙂 What a spectacular day today was, perfect clear blue sky 🙂 Cold so no water required and scenery to die for, such stunning villages as Appledore, Buck’s Mills & Clovelly…
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Day 4 on the South West Coast Path and 551 miles to go.
I’m writing this in my room above the noisiest bar in town 🙁 the charming bar maid assures me she will have the place cleared by 11.30pm but then the hot rodders start laying down rubber outside all night long. So probably wasn’t the best place to pick 🙁 after a 25 mile walk. The problem with…