The plan Last day! And a long one…15 miles\804m ascent\8% average grade\4:40 hours of moderate walking ending at Sea Breezes Guest House for all of us. The reality We all agreed 15 miles was too long. So we caught a taxi to Rame Head and walked the remaining 8.55 miles into Plymouth. Good choice! The…
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The plan 8.6 miles\592m ascent\8% average grade\3:09 hours of strenuous-then-moderate walking to The Bungalow (Cs) and Finnygook Inn (Ls). Second last day! Reality Nice stay at Driftwood House, though nothing particularly memorable about the house or the room, and it was oddly far from Looe itself. I think I’d choose somewhere in East Looe, closer…
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The plan 11.9 miles\804m ascent\average grade 8%\4:21 hours of strenuous-then-moderate walking, ending at Driftwood House (Cs) and Fieldhead Hotel (Ls). Only two more days after this one! Reality Ended up being about 12 miles, with a total of 3 testing ups-and-downs between Fowey and Polperro, with lots of steps (89 on one ascent), and then…
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The plan Walk 7.4 strenuous miles\575m ascent\average grade 10%\2:45 hours from Mevagissey to Charlestown, the bus onward to Fowey. The Well House (Cs) and The Ship Inn (Ls). As mentioned yesterday, Eden Project and Lost Gardens of Heligan may be within range. Reality Maybe I always knew that today wouldn’t actually be a walking day?…
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The plan 11.75 miles\794m ascent\average grade 8%\4:19 hours of strenuous-then-easy walking to Honeycombe House (Cs) and Buckingham House (Ls). If we decide not to walk or leave late tomorrow or whatever, we could divert off to Lost Gardens of Heligan or the Eden Project. Reality A good day’s walking, in some heavy rain initially but then…
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The plan 13.6 miles\764m ascent\average grade 7%\4:49 hours of easy-then-strenuous, ending at Corfingle House (Cs) and Carradale (Ls). Reality Today was the day that compromise seriously kicked in. It was hot (only 76 as the official high, but the sun was searing and it was quite humid) and both M and I suffered a mild…
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The plan 9.25 miles\364m ascent\average grade 5%\3:09 hours of moderate walking to Seaview (Cs) and The Grove (Ls). Then a rest day! Reality We had all kinds of flexibility today. Mawnan Smith, where both lodgings were, is in the center of a bulge of land. There were options for start point–being driven back to where…
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The plan 11 miles\518m ascent\average grade 6%\3:55 hours of moderate walking, unless we need to take the high water route around Gillan Creek, in which case 13 miles. Heading for Trevarn (Cs) and Gold Martin (Ls) in Helford. Two ferries today! Reality A lovely, varied day, via supposedly active quarries and definitely active fishing villages,…
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The plan 10.4 miles\635m ascent\average grade 8%\3:45 hours of moderate then strenuous walking to Fernleigh (Cs) and Boak House (Ls) in Coverack Reality Continuing our theme of “we don’t need to visit Lizard point” we headed east out of Lizard for Church Cove. This beautiful thatched cottage had a thatch cat on the thatch porch……
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The plan 14 miles\766m ascent\average grade 7%\5:00 hours of moderate walking (longest duration day) ending at Hellarcher Farm (Cs) and The Caerthillian (Ls) Reality Very late updating this. Internet has been a consistent problem now we’re heading east, with upload speeds in particular too slow to be usable. Now in Falmouth, which appears to have…
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