9 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . It’s the night after England’s semi-final at Euro 2020 – so everyone is smiling. The number 24 bus which picks us up right outside our incredible campsite at Heligan takes an hour to get to Par. It goes round the houses, literally, and I feel sick from breathing in my own breath in a face mask. However, the lady’s discussion behind makes up for it - her best comment after coming off the phone to a relative in Australia was “do you think he watched the football before us or after us?” ha-ha… Take a deep breath as at [...]

6.5 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . We’ve driven down to Cornwall early this morning through heavy rain for a week’s holiday. By early afternoon we’ve pitched our tent at Heligan campsite and motored back to Fowey to start walking. It’s four in the afternoon by the time we arrive. It’s funny how Fowey is so familiar after our stay here back in April when the sun shone every day and it was pretty quiet of visitors. We dodge the tourists (ha-ha we’re not tourists) who are queuing outside the chocolate shop and sitting outside cafes and bars; we head straight to the pasty shop to [...]

8 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . We’ve enjoyed a couple of nights in Fowey. A well-earned break yesterday with a trip to the beach and a swim (a bit cold in April), watched Prince Phillips funeral (very moving), then a take away pizza and ice creams (very tasty). The alarm is set early to catch the first ferry across to Polruan, with the buses only running on week days we’ve booked a taxi to take us back to Polperro. The taxi driver is pleased for the business – 2021 hasn’t been good for business and 2020, by all accounts, brought many people to Cornwall who [...]

6 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . We pack our bags and say a sad goodbye to Captain Blake’s Retreat then drive along the coast road back to Looe. The councils of Cornwall are generously offering free parking for this period – thank you very much. Parking up in West Looe we pop briefly over the river to purchase a sun hat in East Looe before following the coast path along the river bank. I’m guessing the west side of the town would be the favoured side to reside, much quieter and some lovely houses set back from the water front. The coast path, at first, [...]

10 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . How lucky are we? We’ve woken up to yet another cloud free and almost wind free spring day in Cornwall. Leaving our car at Tregantle Fort we venture in and across the firing ranges, keeping to the designated paths (but only permitted on days they are not firing). It looks a bit like a giant golf driving range with sets of numbers in the distance to aim at. Coming out of the firing range we head left, saying hello to young horned sheep as they stare at us, and over the golf course. We stop for a golfer to [...]

8 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . From our little holiday home where, yet again, we wake up to views of clear blue skies over the English Channel, we wander back over the Rame headland to start todays walk from Cawsand, where we left off last night. Having checked out the place yesterday we are now quite early for lunch so purchase Cornish pasties for later and an ice cream for now, which we enjoy on Cawsand beach –bustling with holiday makers. The coast path takes us along a road behind a couple of sea facing dwellings high up above the beach. It leads to yet [...]

8 Miles Miles walked since starting. . . We’ve already walked several miles from Captain Blake’s Retreat across the Rame peninsula by the time we sit down for fish and chips at Rockfish Plymouth between the marina and the National Marine Aquarium. I practice the art of staring at the gulls to put them off pinching my lunch which works! Stopping to buy postcards (seriously) we meander from the Barbican below the imposing walls of the Citadel toward the Hoe. Rather than walking up to the Hoe we stay on the coast path to admire the Art Deco Lido, called Tinside Pool, built in 1935 and currently [...]