South West Coast Path: Falmouth to Portloe
by In which: Good Friday is very quiet ● a ferry is run for me ● a small ferry is busier ● the walk proper begins …
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South West Coast Path: Falmouth – around Pendennis Point
In which: a train journey ends at the Lerryn Hotel ● legs are stretched around Pendennis Point ● tomorrow beckons across Carrick Roads ● you …
South West Coast Path: Port Gaverne to Padstow
In which: a lejogger puts things in perspective ● crabs are available but not water ● cattle congregate ● the watery balance is restored ● …
South West Coast Path: Boscastle to Port Gaverne
In which: there are more ups and downs and ups and downs ● puffins have perished ● a rocky valley is a delight ● Tintagel …
South West Coast Path: Bude to Boscastle
In which: there are 1600 metres of up and down ● the day starts windy ● Crackington Haven is refreshing ● grazing goats grace the …
South West Coast Path: Hartland Quay to Bude
In which: I forget my trousers ● Ronald Duncan provides brief shelter ● Cornwall welcomes me with rain ● Hawker’s Hut stares out to sea …
South West Coast Path: Clovelly to Hartland Quay
In which: a stick is forgotten and remembered in time ● it is wet, windy and wild ● early woodlands give way to bare and …
South West Coast Path: Westward Ho! to Clovelly
In which: Westward Ho! says farewell with new and old, and echoes of Minehead ● another railway provides an easy start ● mermaids fail to …
South West Coast Path: Braunton to Westward Ho!
In which: the Coast Path becomes a walk along the Rivers Taw and Torridge ● I still see no Royal Marines, but plenty of their …
South West Coast Path: Woolacombe to Braunton
In which: the Devon coast beckons once again ● I depart from Woolacombe after a three-year gap ● sand fills much of my day ● …