Walk in Cornwall with Claire

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- Jun 25, 2022
- 🌧 15 °C
- Altitude: 20 m
- England Plymouth Devonport Keyham Railway Station 50.3885, -4.178450°23’19” N 4°10’42” W
Day 13
Day 2 in Plymouth
June 25, 2022 in England ⋅ 🌧 15 °C
Saltram House and Plymouth Harbour. National Services day. Some rain but mainly sunny but cool. Walked about 14 km.
Our 2-bedroom house 2 up/2 down is quite comfortable, recently renovated. Close to bus stops and CO-OP.
We are very good at living economically!Read more
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- Jun 26, 2022
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 22 m
- England Plymouth Devonport Keyham Railway Station 50.388414, -4.17849850°23’18” N 4°10’43” W
Day 14
Day 3 in Plymouth
June 26, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
We didn’t have to leave too early this morning, which was good after our long day yesterday.

It took us about 40 mins to walk to the ferry (car and pedestrians; free for pedestrians) across the Tamar River to Torpoint. About a 30 min walk to Antony House and gardens. Not as grandiose as Saltram but still very lovely. although now owned by the National Trust (since the 1960s) family still live there. It was builtRead more
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- Jun 27, 2022
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 28 m
- England Plymouth Devonport Keyham Railway Station 50.38841, -4.17843650°23’18” N 4°10’42” W
Day 15
Day 4 in Plymouth
June 27, 2022 in England ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
It took us 3 bus trips (with some waiting in the rain) to get to our destination: Buckland Abbey. This was an abbey for three hundred years, then became for some time the home of Sir Francis Drake.

Much walking (as usual!), about 10 kms. Had chicken pie and veg for dinner; watched Wimbledon onTV.Read more
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- Jun 28, 2022
- 🌧 14 °C
- Altitude: 102 m
- England Veryan Portloe 50.220772, -4.91193750°13’15” N 4°54’43” W
Day 16
Falmouth
June 28, 2022 in England ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
We were able to stay in our house in Plymouth until 1:00 pm, which suited us because we had to catch a bus into town in time to get on the National Express coach at 2:30 pm to Falmouth. The trip took 4 hours (it rained most of the way so luckily it was not a walking day).

Falmouth is a pretty place (You’ll love Falmouth, everyone says) and our hotel looks quite up-market from the outside, at least. It was a 20 min walk from where the coach dropped us, some of it uphill. We weren’t impressed when the concierge made no attempt to help us with our luggage up two flights of stairs, after giving us vague directions to where our room was.

We walked to a nearby Spar to get our ‘provisions’ (see photo of Claire) for the evening, which we enjoyed in our (sitting on the double bed) watching the tennis at Wimbledon.Read more
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- Jun 29, 2022
- ☁️ 17 °C
- Altitude: 102 m
- England Veryan Portloe 50.220707, -4.9119550°13’15” N 4°54’43” W
Day 17
Falmouth to Portloe
June 29, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
What a day! 28 km and although the terrain wasn’t too up and down, we were pretty shattered by the end of the day. It was made longer by the fact that we had to walk 3 km from our hotel to the beginning of the walk.

The walk included two ferries ( total cost 27 pounds), one of which was no more than a dingy capable of carrying a max of 10 passengers.

We saw some beautiful coastal scenery and picturesque villages. The beaches are lovely, clean and many are protected small coves.

Our B & B (in Trewartha) is well-appointed (a fridge: wow!) but we had to be picked up by the owner from a hotel in Portloe and she dropped us back there for a pub meal and had a friend pick us up and bring us back (about 3km we did not want to walk). Although the meal was OK, we resent paying £7.20 for a glass of wine, and anyway, our picnics are pretty good!Read more
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- Jun 30, 2022, 12:00am
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 30 m
- England St. Goran Gorran Haven Vault Beach 50.24139, -4.79082750°14’29” N 4°47’27” W
Day 18
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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- Jul 1, 2022
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- England St. Blaise Par Par Railway Station 50.356769, -4.70388650°21’24” N 4°42’14” W
Day 19
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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- Jul 2, 2022, 6:55pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 31 m
- England Looe 50.349773, -4.45157250°20’59” N 4°27’6” W
Day 20
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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- Jul 3, 2022
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 65 m
- England Sheviock Crafthole 50.3643, -4.29294250°21’51” N 4°17’35” W
Day 21
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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- Jul 4, 2022, 7:52pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- England Plymouth Barbican Millbay Park 50.362917, -4.14852150°21’47” N 4°8’55” W
Day 22
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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