Category: travel blog

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 down into Padstow where I spent a bit of time inspecting parts of Rick Stein’s domain viz Cafe, Restaurant (Lunch £37), Bread shop & the pub on the way in. Pretty amazing really all on the back of cooking fish 🙂

Climbing out of Padstow I came across the largest collection of benches ever, in fact every corner turned exposed them in an abundance never before experienced, most of which were memorials to the beloved deceased. I wonder if Dignity Funerals offer some sort of package deals.

Which brings me onto the other thing I see that causes me to ponder, that is all the flower, stone memorials to mum, grandma etc on the cliff edges. No day goes by without seeing at least a couple of them. Did they jump? or was it their favourite spot?

Todays header is my sort of dream home, built into the slope with a glass front and stunning views. Unfortunately this one is built at the edge of a caravan park with a rather pedestrian house next door.

Oh! and the weather started threatening but the rain stayed away, the wind was cold but basically a good day for walking although I hadn’t fully recovered from yesterdays marathon so was feeling tired.

I bumped into a day walking couple who I had met yesterday, of course it was they who recognised me :-)We had a lovely chat about adult kids & boxes piled behind settees 🙂  I wonder if I will meet them again nearer the end in Weymouth 🙂

I finished today in Perranporth, which for anyone following, is a bit of a dump. I failed to find the b&b and the pub is atop the big hill (in the wrong direction). However, outside the shop (closed 🙁 ) there was a stop for Western Greyhound Buses 556 service to Newquay (at 57 mins to the hour). which was a good decision as Newquay is real cheap with lots of  facilities including 18MB broadband. Hopefully, I will get the 556 at 9:05 tomorrow so I can start walking at 9.54

Todays stats are here and pictures here. Everytrail is here:
South West Coastpath – Padstow to Porthcothan at EveryTrail

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, still yet to meet any one who is walking even for a week.

I left the Coombe Martin Inn at 9.30ish after a reasonable breakfast and a great nights sleep. Certainly a place to revisit with tripod etc to capture those sunsets over the sea.

Great walk over High Cliff, nowhere near as bad as the Guide makes out and along to the The Harbour Light Tea Rooms for scones &  tea. The tea rooms now fully restored after the disastrous flood in 2004 then onwards to Tintagel where the footpath became quite busy for the first mile. With the Rocky Valley as an highlight. Finally arriving in Tintagel and the thronging masses. I quickly escaped and continued onto Trebarwith Strand to be met with the shock of a lifetime. The Port William PH was wanting £90 a night for b&b quickly reduced to £80 for a singleton, I quickly showed him my heels. Walking up the hill I checked out The Mill Houses Inn, a similar story after much pressure he came down to £69 so up the hill again, all the b&bs were closed. I rounded the corner to find the Atlantic View Hotel, entering the building was like stepping back to the real England we oldies cherish  🙂 in fact I must confess it reminded me of Fawlty Towers, However, Rosemary & John are the epitome of professionalism, they only did full board but for a very reasonable price of £68 a night. Including a 5 course dinner (totally amazing food too) + cheese,s. All I can say is WOW  See the header for my dinner 🙂

The days stats are here as usual the pictures are Google+ here and the Everytrail is here (no pics yet again).
South West Coast Path – Crackington Haven to Trebarwithstrand (Treknow) at EveryTrail