Walk in Cornwall with Claire

June 2022 – July 2025

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- Day 27
- Saturday, July 9, 2022
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- England Ealing Broadway Station 51.5166, -0.300351°30’60” N 0°18’1” W
Last day of our trip
July 9, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We are now quite familiar with the trains from Ealing into London. The rains go so frequently that if the next train is 6 mins away we think we are waiting a long time! Claire and I are almost the only ones wearing masks on the tube or in museums, galleries etc., in spite of there being a sharp rise in COVID cases in London.

We visited the Museum of London which is a fantastic history of London, and a place you need to back to several times to do it justice. Then it was the Guildhall Art Gallery which is built over aroma amphitheatre, and again, deserves more time than we had to spare.

Home to pack, have our last dinner in London (I was hoping for a drink at our local a few doors up, but the tennis was more interesting …) and a reasonably early night. fortunately we can get a train to Heathrow from Ealing station.Read more
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- Day 26
- Friday, July 8, 2022
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- England Ealing Broadway Station 51.516635, -0.30033451°30’60” N 0°18’1” W
London day 4
July 8, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
British Museum
Shopping in bond/Oxford sets
I bought a few things but not anything great: usual story of not much in my size.
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- Day 25
- Thursday, July 7, 2022
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- England Ealing Broadway Station 51.516602, -0.300451°30’60” N 0°18’1” W
London Day 3
July 7, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Victoria and Albert Museum
Kensington Gardens and Palace
Boris resigns as PM
Roast chicken for dinner
Spoke to Sebastian and Carmen this morning for Sebastian’s 8th birthday
Talked to Emma
Earling is a great place to be staying. 5 mins to the tube and 3 mins to Tesco Express.Read more
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- Day 24
- Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at 12:00 AM
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- England Ealing Broadway Station 51.5166, -0.300451°30’60” N 0°18’1” W
London Day 2
July 6, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Westminster Houses of Parliament
House of Commons
10Dowling St
British Museum
My Fair Lady
Shopping (?!)
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- Day 23
- Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at 9:28 PM
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 62 m
- England Ealing Broadway Station 51.516608, -0.30037551°30’60” N 0°18’1” W
London!
July 5, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
It took us over 6 hours (2 buses plus train) to get to our apartment in Ealing, which is lovely! with a Tesco Express just around the corner and 10 minutes to the tube, it is very convenient.
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- Day 22
- Monday, July 4, 2022 at 7:52 PM
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- England Millbay Park 50.362917, -4.14852150°21’47” N 4°8’55” W
Back to Plymouth
July 4, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Whilst our B & B was in a lovely setting and the establishment itself was good, the owners (mother and two sons) were somewhat strange! We had to eat dinner there as we were quite a distance from any other place (initially, we thought that evening meals were not provided so we were looking at begging for a few bread rolls!). Our meals turned out to be micro-waved frozen meals for which we paid restaurant prices! and breakfast was pretty ordinary as well.

Anyway, an early start to the day meant we could cover the walk to Plymouth (22 km) in reasonable time.

Lots of lovely scenery of course plus quaint little towns (Cawsand and Kingsand).

Beautiful garden (Mount Edgecumbe House and country park grade 1 national register of historic parks and gardens, 17th and 18th gardens, complete with lovely folly) before we caught the Cremyll Ferry to King William dock.

Our B & B tonight is the worst of the lot! Very small, cluttered with tatt, no glasses, tiny TV (no good for the tennis) intermittent WiFi, plastic tablecloths on breakfast tables … we have been spoilt!Read more
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- Day 21
- Sunday, July 3, 2022
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 65 m
- England Crafthole 50.3643, -4.29294250°21’51” N 4°17’35” W
Looe to Portwrinkle (Crafthole)
July 3, 2022 in England ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We enjoyed our time in Looe; the best hotel we’ve stayed in yet.

A relatively comfortable 16 km, with reasonable ups and downs. As usual, beautiful scenery and quaint villages; from open moors to English woodlands. Cloudy but no rain.

Asked a man who was fixing his car for some WD40 to fix my stuck walking pole - “I’ll have a look in the top shed.” Came back and now I can shorten the pole to fit in my suitcase.

Destination is marked as Portwrinkle but the accommodation is actually in Crafthaven, a further 2 km on. There are no shops in either village but fortunately Liscawn provides meals for residents.

The Liscawn has beautiful surroundings and our room is quite comfortable. We are becoming adept at using all manner of showers!Read more
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- Day 20
- Saturday, July 2, 2022 at 6:55 PM
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 31 m
- England Looe 50.349773, -4.45157250°20’59” N 4°27’6” W
Par to Looe
July 2, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
It was bucketing down this morning and the forecast did not look good, so we settled on Plan D (the previous versions being ditched due to the scheduled length of today’s walk: almost 30 km!), which was to take a train to Looe (via Liskeard, where platform 3 is on a different station from platforms 1 and 2), then walk to Polperro. As it turned out the weather was pretty good and we did our walk to Polperro then on to Crumplehorn where we caught a bus back to our hotel, Hannafore Point Hotel, which is actually on the point and we even have a room overlooking the ocean. Lovely!

Pretty villages and scenery; lots of people walking who wanted a chat! We’re often called antipodeans (or girls).

All up, about 14 km

Watched some great tennis!Read more
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- Day 19
- Friday, July 1, 2022
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- England Par Railway Station 50.356769, -4.70388650°21’24” N 4°42’14” W
Gorram Haven to Par
July 1, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Mixed bag. German walkers. Bus from Charlestown. Nice hotel. Fall.
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- Day 18
- Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 12:00 AM
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 30 m
- England Vault Beach 50.24139, -4.79082750°14’29” N 4°47’27” W
Portloe to Gorran Haven
June 30, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Relatively short day: 13 km, lovely views with a few showers; sheltered in a shed; cows; Attimidday Rock. West Portholland and East Port Holland.

Nice hotel but too expensive to eat so back to picnic in our comfortable room. We had checked out the local fish’n’chips and bakery/off licence/corner store and had our meal planned, but when were went back to the bakery found they had fresh Cornish pasties (reduce to 1.50 ea) which they would heat for us … well, when in Cornwall … and they were delicious!
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