Treen - Penzance Never really reaching a consensus to walk together, Emily and I got to chatting as we packed up camp and headed east from Treen, and then just never really stopped. Generally I prefer to walk alone so that I can keep to a natural pace, but we rummaged along together okay. At … Continue reading SWCP Day 34 – 26 Sept 2018
St. Just - Treen After such an enormous effort getting to St. Just, the walk to Treen seemed somewhat anticlimactic and annoyingly long. Which was silly, because it was a milestone day (passing Land's End and swapping from the north coast to the south coast), and I had been excited to move on to swcp … Continue reading SWCP Day 33 – 25 Sept 2018
Zennor Head - St. Just Mammoth would be a good word to describe this day. By far the longest walk I'll have to do to complete the swcp (I hope). The five km added due to the change in accommodation tipped me over into deciding to get a luggage transfer. This, of course, meant I … Continue reading SWCP Day 32 – 24 Sept 2018
So sorry, fellow lopers, I am way behind on swcp blog entries. The issue is purely internet access. Simply put, the birds and the sheep and the seals and the slugs don't need access to the web, and it would seem the local humans and mer-people do without it too (for the most part). I … Continue reading Off-loping 1 Oct 2018
St. Ives - Zennor Head (roundabout) A gorgeous day with gorgeous views. Today was meant to be a rest day, but an unfortunate last-minute sms upset my accommodations for monday night (my gypsy caravan had a busted boiler!), which meant that in order to make the closest hostel in St. Just, I will have to … Continue reading SWCP Day 31 – 23 Sept 2018
Lelant Saltings - St. Ives Slight miscalculation made today. I was thinking an hour in light rain wouldn’t be too bad for my hiking trousers. They could cope with a bit of wet, then quickly dry off in the near-constant gale-force winds. What I didn't factor in was how much water the grasses and trees … Continue reading SWCP Day 30 – 22 Sept 2018
Perranporth - Watergate Bay With the previous day's hurdles behind me, I set forth just after dawn determined to get one of the two remaining walks in this region of the path done. The Port Isaac - Rock stint was calling me, but five hours return on a bus didn't sound fun, and here I … Continue reading SWCP Day 29 – 21 Sept 2018
Newquay - Perranporth Okay, so, have I mentioned it been windy? It's hard to get across how strong the wind has been in photos. After all, that grass could just grow bent over like that, right? Hmmm... Today I woke to persistent rain and a yellow alert for wind from the MET (i.e. weather specialists … Continue reading SWCP Interloper – 20 Sept 2018
Tintagel - Port Isaac For some reason I missed that today's walk was considered 'severe'. Only 14.6 km, and the map didn't give the impression that it was particularly hard. But, well, holy hell, it was massive! Made significantly worse by a night of no sleep at the Tintagel YHA where the lady sleeping in … Continue reading SWCP Day 28 – 19 Sept 2018
Boscastle - Tintagel Today started with a visit to the Museum of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This is no Harry Potter theme park. I kinda felt emotionally/mentally askew while I was in there. Fascinating to some extent, but that broad set of spiritualism is not for me. Anyhoo! You can fix anything with a cream tea, … Continue reading SWCP Day 27 – 18 Sept 2018
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