{"id":3270,"date":"2012-05-08T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T07:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T07:40:42","slug":"looe-to-plymouth-on-the-south-west-coast-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Looe to Plymouth on The South West Coast Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another long day with just under 19 miles walked and 4780 feet climbed!<\/p>\n

The Schooner Point<\/a>\u00a0gave me an\u00a0excellent \u00a0breakfast, 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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Sand<\/a>Since I left early it was interesting to see the beach been cleaned with a\u00a0miniature\u00a0piste basher<\/a>, I wonder if it has magnets in to grab all the money folks have dropped during the day. Climbing out past all the luxury homes I soon descended into the distinctly\u00a0downmarket Millendreath with it’s boarded up entertainment complex’s and hundreds of small chalets. I pondered how places become like this? Did it start with a local parish councillor on the make…<\/p>\n

\"Spiral<\/a>I then climbed up again \u00a0to the rather beautiful spiral cut into the grass and the poster with the mythology behind the number 7, making me think about the role of 7 in my life (born in the 7th month of the 7th year, 28 is 7 times 4…….. then descending through the beautiful woods into the remarkably naff beach cafes, no fancy cakes and china tea cups along the route for me today. then on through the Tregantle rifle range<\/a>s with a rather menacing warship\u00a0lying\u00a0offshore.<\/p>\n

\"Jagged<\/a>\u00a0Then to Cornwall’s answer to a shanty town,\u00a0Freathy with its multitude of wooden shacks obviously built prior to the planning laws arrival. The road was getting busy so I descended onto the gorgeous beach, which you should leave \u00a0near the old boiler from \u00a0the wreck. However, in one of my more insane moments I could see a set of steps at the far end and decided to clamber around \/ over the amazing & dangerous jagged rocks, which at times seemed\u00a0impenetrable. Reaching\u00a0 the\u00a0steps they turned out to lead to the rather exclusive and very private Pollawn Fort wedding centre <\/a>which rather explained the skip full of champagne bottles.\u00a0However, I wasn’t challenged so I snook out.<\/p>\n

\"Cawsand<\/a>The walk continued through beautiful woods and countryside to the amazingly pretty Cawsand village which was in the middle of a May day carnival complete with Morris dancers and Navy wallahs wading in the sea. A Plymouth ferry arrived as I was on the beach so I skipped the last two miles to Cremyll and its ferry and hopped on.<\/p>\n

I wandered up to Citadel Road, the b&b centre according to Mike<\/a> and booked into Kynance House.<\/a> Then went for a disastrous\u00a0meal at Cafe Rouge in a distinctly uninviting deserted Plymouth centre.<\/p>\n

All the pics are here<\/a> and stats here<\/a>, Everytrail below
\nLooe to Plymouth on South West Coast Path at EveryTrail<\/a>
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