This post was something that I had thought about when I got that 10 year anniversary message earlier this year, I’d also passed 750,000 hits on the site as well, so I thought that I should do a celebration post to mark the event. Its true that I started in 2015, mainly out of a…
So the boys were with us for one final day and we’d decided to head to Land’s End for a wander around. They had been 2 nights before, doing a whistle stop tour to St Michael’s Mount, taking a quick photo or two, then trying to race the sunset to Land’s End. They made the…
As mentioned in the previous walk, myself and Linda were not alone in our trip to the most south and west area in the country. Both boys came with us and they joined us on the next two walks, they followed us down, with my eldest driving (they are growing up a bit quick aren’t…
So after having 6 walks in a row on the coastal path, we decided to keep the run going with another trip away. Only just back from Bideford and walks around Hartland Point, and we were off again, this time towards St Ives and Land’s End. We also had company, with the boys also coming,…
Day two of our stay in Bideford and we decided to just carry on from where we left off yesterday. We’d previously walked around to East Titchberry Farm, before heading inland and back to the car at Hartland. This time we parked at Brownsham (lots of National Trust car parks in this area, so I…
In writing up this walk I’ve been considering if I’ve actually got the name of this site correct, not too many tors for the last 5 walks, including this one. Infact it was the 8th June since I last stepped on Dartmoor and I’ve still got 4 more walks to write about, all of them…
So this was our second walk of our Weymouth stay, the previous day we’d been inundated with butterflies and today was no different. With all the dry weather its certainly helped our flighty friends and they have taken advantage of it. Today we saw lots of the same as our walk from Abbotsbury, with Meadow…
So I’ve completed a few walks over the years that have had plenty of insects, mainly butterflies, in the pictures. I make no excuses for the next three or four walks, where they will be inundated with butterfly pictures. This walk on the Dorset coast extends my coastal path efforts further east, pushing it towards…
So we’d stayed overnight in Barnstaple and as a result we were able to make an early start without the need for a 90 minute drive. We started again from the Long Bridge in Barnstaple, this time on the northern side of the estuary, heading for Saunton, hopefully. The route hugs the estuary again for…
So time for a bit of a change, after lots of Dartmoor, the Erme/Plym trail and South Wales we needed to redress the coastal balance. So far this year we’d only walked once by the coast (here at Rock) and that wasn’t enough. Normally during the year we look to book a longer section of…
So it was Linda’s birthday and as a good partner I asked what she would like to do? Not shopping, not a meal out but a coastal walk with some sarnies was her choice!! I’d ordered some splendid weather to set off a lovely piece of North Cornwall coastline to perfection. The scene was set…
I said at this point last year that 2023 had “passed in the blink of an eye”, well I’m not sure I even managed to get a blink in, and 2024 was gone. So here I am typing up what happened throughout last year. As with previous years I’ll start with the review and look…
So this was our last walk of 2024, which meant we’d walked 3 times between Christmas and New Year, which was a good walking end to the year. We decided to head to the coast and Bolt Head as the weather showed promise of maybe a bit of sunshine, rather than the low cloud misty…
So after last weeks walk from Pentewan to Mevagissey, we again stayed coastal, and returned to an area of mine and Linda’s most frustrating walk. We’d visited the area north of Bude back in April 2023 with an afternoon walk to allow the rain and cloud to clear as the day went on, well that…
After getting back from the Lakes in early August, we’d lost our walking mojo. We’d done one walk, the previous week, on southern Dartmoor, but this was now my birthday weekend, at the end of September and we really hadn’t been walking properly for 5 or 6 weeks. Time to start changing that with another…
So this was day 3 and the final section from Mullion to the most southerly point in the UK, Lizard Point. Unlike Land’s End which feels like the most westerly point in the mainland, but it isn’t, the Lizard is the most southerly. The good news is the Lizard also doesn’t have the tacky fun…
So, day 2 of our walk from Penzance to Lizard Point and we leave our little overnight cottage in Rinsey Croft, heading for Mullion and specifically the Old Inn, where we had a night booked. The distance would be exactly the same as the day before, but with no driving before the walk it felt…
So it was time for our coastal path trip away, picking the middle of June for the normally decent weather, and with it being still in school time the midweek walking should be quieter. Last year we had done a 3 day loop around Land’s End from Penzance to Pendeen, and this time we again…
l last walked in this area in September 2022, when I headed west from Port Quin to Polzeath, but it was the area to the east of Port Quin that I wanted to finish off. I had walked from Tintagel to Dannonchapel back in October 2021, remembering how difficult that section was. I’d looked at…
So after our little trip away to South Wales, we rested a week before looking to head out again. We’d remembered that last year, we’d got some free parking before Easter at Porthcothan, and needing to complete the section to Mawgan Porth we headed off to grab a walk the weekend prior to Easter. On…
It had reached the middle of February and we had still not ventured to the coast for a walk. In fact we hadn’t done any coastal walk since 8th December at Brixham (here) and before that a proper walk from Holywell to Crantock near Newquay (here), it was well overdue. We put this right with…
So that was 2023 gone in the blink of an eye and we all start to look at walks and places to visit for 2024. I’ll save talking about 2024 for lower down in this post and first look back at 2023, which will go down as one of my best walking years with plenty…
We’d booked a couple of days off work and had a few things planned, one was a day just bimbling around, record shops, lunch, that sort of thing. Another was a proper walk somewhere, and finally some sanding on a dark stained dresser. The sanding took 2 of those days, and still isn’t finished, although…
November weather has been, well, awful. Week after week of rainy days, even when they forecast a dry day, it would have heavy showers in it. Confidence on the reporting was low, as the weather companies only seemed to accurately report when it would rain all day. Photos online of cold frosty blue sky days…
After a run of 7 walks in 8 by the coast in the summer months, September brought a run of Dartmoor walks, with four in a row. The weather in early October was pretty good, so we decided that another seaside trip was needed, this time to North Cornwall and Watergate Bay. This a popular…
I’d had a couple of weeks off walking in order to try and give some rest to my feet and the Plantar Fasciitis that I was struggling with. I had managed to calm things down a bit and I was felling a bit better, aware though that I had holiday booked in Snowdonia on the…
The boys had both finished school, well my eldest had finished his GCSE’s a month earlier and my youngest only had an activities week to do before his summer holiday, so basically he was finished as well. We headed up for another night in Bideford, using up some Christmas hotel vouchers we had. We’d previously…
You’d have thought that having walked around Land’s End on a 3 day expedition that we’d be sick of having the sea on our left hand side. Not a bit of it, this was a revisit to Start Point for myself and a first proper look for Linda, in an area that never fails to…
Our final day of our 3 day walk and all change on the weather front and the path front. Gone are the wide paths and high cliffs, the cloudy, dry weather or very warm and sunny weather. Instead we had grey dank clouds, drizzle with overgrown paths full of gorse and bracken. The drizzle itself…
We woke refreshed and the place we stayed in had supplied a good selection of breakfast items, plus plenty of milk to make a flask or two of coffee to take with us. We knew that we only had a 7 mile walk to complete, with a bus at around 2.15pm at Pendeen, it meant…
This walk was done on the same day as the St Just to Pendeen section and the weather was just as good here, as it was on the north coast, all very hot and sunny as we walked the seafront. There isn’t much to this part of the coastal path, although I liked that it…
Back in the depths of winter we were holiday planning for 2023, we’d booked a week in the Lakes for early May, which we booked whilst we sat in the Lakes on our previous holiday in November. We then decided that we needed a week in March split between Lancashire (visiting family) and the Yorkshire…
It had been a little while since I had been in this area (here), over 18 months, which considering how much I enjoyed the last walk here is a bit remiss of me. Time to put that right and also pick another perfect day to walk the Roseland Peninsula. This area is definitely one of…
One last walk before our week in the Lake District and we thought that a coastal walk would help get some ascent and descent into our legs. The various books on the coastal path seem to suggest that the hardest section of the whole path is that from Bude heading north around to Clovelly. Well…
Having walked a fantastic section of the South Devon coastal path from Bigbury at the end of February, we were ready for another coastal outing. No doubt these walks will become more frequent in the summer, but by the start of April, this was only our second visit to some sea views. The North Cornwall…
A birthday walk for Linda and a day off work as a bonus. This was a return visit to a brilliant part of the coastal path on the South Devon coast between Bigbury and Mothercombe, plus the lovely village of Ringmore. The walk along the coastal path is a classic rise and fall route, with…
This was a weekend away in Newquay for my youngest’s birthday, we didn’t really have too much planned with the exception that the birthday boy was going to eat his bodyweight in pancakes for breakfast. That feat was accomplished quickly after a late start and we had a mull over our options, having driven to…
Our first coastal walk of the year but we managed to sneak one in before the end of January. This is just a simple route from Seaton to just past Portwrinkle (got to love the Cornish place names), with a bit of inland walking to make the route a bit different. The weather wasn’t great…
Well 2022 has passed into the annals of history and we all start to make plans for 2023, I will mention some of my plans for this year lower down but for now lets look back at 2022. It started with lots of coastal walks, in fact I’d only done one walk on Dartmoor by…
After two previous weekend trips away with the boys this was the 3rd one this year. We’d been to Weymouth and Bideford so far and this was a trip to Newquay. This walk was in the half term at the end of October (which gives you an idea of how far behind I am at…
So having canned the plan to walk around Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove, we woke late to glorious sunshine, a quickly hatched plan meant we would drive a short distance towards home, walk and then carry on from there. I’d previously walked as far as a caravan/camping park at Burton Bradstock, so the plan was…
A weekend away in Weymouth and a chance to walk some of the coastal path that’s a bit far to do in one day from home. The weather looked a bit rubbish for the Saturday, but Sunday looked good. So the plan was to walk towards Portland on the poorer day and then do the…
We had a weekend in Weymouth booked and decided we needed a warm up coastal walk in order to prepare for that area. We decided that north Cornwall was again the area, and we would carry on further north from my previous walk passing Bude (here). This walk passes the huge GCHQ satellite dishes on…
A walk with the boys, this one again from home. This one was 6 miles and we headed out towards Down Thomas first before picking up the coastal path to Bovisand and then a good route back home. This walk was early September so temperatures were still good and the sun was shining, with some…
After walks in the Lakes, 3 Dartmoor walks and a walk from home with the boys, it was time to get back to the coastal path. We had a weekend booked in Weymouth coming up so didn’t want to head east and looking at the weather report, a bank of cloud was coming up from…
The plan for this walk was to pick off part of the coastal path between Rame and Seaton and look to complete a section of the coastal path running all the way from West Bay in Dorset to Pentewan in Cornwall. Which is a fair distance! After this I’ve only got the bit from Trethill…
Every now and again the pull of a new coast walk means I need to scour maps looking for somewhere along the South West Coastal Path to walk. Petrol prices currently are meaning that if I’m heading out I’ll be going along quicker roads to minimise the fuel used, and not hitting too many lanes…
A classic pub quiz question asking, “what is the only town in England with an exclamation mark in its name?” Westward Ho! of course. A question I got right time and again at Uni in the north of England. Living in Devon it isn’t even asked, an easy question. Its taken me a while to…
This is a first of two posts regarding another visit for myself and the boys to the Tank Museum in Dorset, this one involved a stay in a Premier Inn in Weymouth overnight, in order to make the next day drive far easier. This was instead of an out and back from Plymouth, with a…
If you are heading clockwise around the South West Coastal Path then after the heights of High Cliff this part will be a doddle. A lovely flatish section of coastal path, without the climbs and drops of the previous parts. A chance to walk along a beach as well, without worrying about the high cliff…
After three walks in a row on Dartmoor it was back to the coastal path, specifically the south Cornwall area around St Austell. I’d previously walked around Gribben Head from Fowey to Par Sands and the other side I’d walked from Porthpean to Pentewan. This walk joins those two sections together through the town of…
Another walk along this eastern stretch of the South West Coastal Path towards Portland, as I push further east towards Chesil Beach. We’d had a few days of decent sunshine so I decided on a walk that deserved a day befitting of the weather. The highest point on the entire south coast of England should…
Finally out for a walk, after 2 weeks of watching rain pour and wind blow, plus a couple of days of decorating in the house. I spotted a chance of a walk in somewhere that had grey clouds but not necessarily rain until mid afternoon, the wind was just a yellow warning so it felt…
Another weekend and the weather wasn’t playing ball for me, the strong winds and rain coming into the South West seemed to correspond with the time that I could walk. So I had a search and managed to find a weather window between 10am and 2pm in a place I hadn’t walked on the coastal…
Another of those three walks I needed to finish off to complete a long section of coastal path from Charmouth to Whitsand Bay, sorting this one means I just have a section around Torquay to do on this long stretch. This is another section which has parts of the path which are a short distance…
I’ll be honest I’m not sure why I walked from home on this day, I just did. It might of been the lack of gumption to drive to somewhere else, either way I have a few good options on the doorstep and I took advantage of one of them for a decent walk which takes…
First walk of the new year and choices on where to go. Dartmoor, coast, east, west, north. In the end it was the weather that made my mind up, a few days earlier I had walked on the north eastern side of Dartmoor and the weather had altered from the gloomy drizzle to the west…
Well 2021 has now passed and we can all start to make plans for the new year, I will get around to mentioning my plans lower down but for now lets look back at 2021. It started badly for the first 3 months with lockdown and the dreaded words “a short drive”. I had no…
The title says it all, nothing more than this location. The walk is an easy one, no more than a mile but between Christmas and New Year its sometimes all you need, just to get out for a bit of fresh air. This bimble bookended, nicely, the walk around Clearbrook, two days before. Being the…
This perambulation was one of the 3 walks I needed to do in order to have completed a section of the South West Coastal Path reaching from Lyme Regis to Whitsand Bay. I’ll be honest I haven’t a clue how far that actually is but I might try and work it out for my annual…
A walk deep in the Roseland Peninsular in perfect weather which made for a spectacular walk. I was looking for walks for this weekend and was deliberating back and forth. Coastal or Dartmoor. I have plenty of Dartmoor to explore and the weather was set fine, but at this time of year the light is…
Back on the coastal path trail and a walk I wasn’t expecting too much from. Look at the best days on the coastal path and this area won’t feature, but don’t be too quick to dismiss it, its a good walk along here. That said the walk back can be a bit scruffy to start,…
Time for another bimble with the boys, and carrying on with the coastal path at Slapton. We had previously done the section to the south of this last summer (here) and we enjoyed the area, so a return was in order. Again we weren’t great at getting out of bed and settled for lunch at…
Back to the northern coast this week and a good forecast which looks very promising indeed. I was a bit worried driving over Bodmin Moor area, driving through low and some very dark clouds. As I descended towards Bossiney the cloud cleared but not enough for the sun. I needn’t have worried, before long the…
As is the case on the coastal path, sometimes you have to walk through a town, along streets and pavements with cars whizzing by. People all around being busy, the weather was warm for October. This walk was a result of me struggling to get the boys out of their pits at a reasonable hour…
A walk to hopefully change the fortunes a bit with the weather, as a rule east is better than west for the weather and the same goes for coastal rather than moorland. So I went east and coastal hoping to double up the luck. The forecast itself was very positive with sunny spells forecast all…
Those with a keen eye will recognise this starting point from earlier this year, when I walked the other direction towards Boscastle and back over High Cliff (here). Nothing quite that high today, but the distance was there and then some. The ups and downs were there as well, making this a tough walk but…
Another week and another coastal walk, and one I’d had my eye for quite a while and never got around to. This weekend I wanted not to drive as far, less than an hour and this one fits the bill nicely, especially as I found a nice National Trust car park inland near to Hendersick…
Back to the coastal path this week and choices of where to go. The south west coastal path is vast, and it can take a good 90 minutes or more to get to its furthest points to walk. Naturally I’ve picked off lots of the nearby spots and some of the good spots, but recently…
A short walk today mainly due to the heavy rain forecast to arrive around midday at home. I headed east to try and extend that time a bit and actually found an area that missed the worst of the rain, whilst I was there anyway. I’ve walked from here with the boys last November around…
The plan of getting out and getting away whenever possible continued. Things are booked for the future weeks and months and loads of plans for weekends inbetween. Revisits to places, new visits to places, the idea is not to stay in the same town, Plymouth, that I’ve been forced to frequent these last 12 months…
The one thing about these lockdowns imposed upon us is that they can damage and hurt people. Simple things such as staying overnight with your children is one of life’s simple things. I’ve not done that since September (two camping trips) with these two rascals. A combination of not having enough rooms for them to…
I felt I’d done walking in Cornwall a bit of a disservice last week with my post on walking in northern Bodmin Moor, so I set out to put that right. This walk should do that nicely, and then some. This is arguably one of the best days coastal path walking in the country, you’ll…
It had been a while since I’d been to the seafront of Plymouth, probably about 18 months. Which seems ridiculous when I live here. So I thought I’d put that right and take the boys for an ice cream. I expected it to be busy and it was with plenty of cafe’s open selling the…
Back to the coast and further from home. Finally a release and a chance to move a bit further and get back to some coastal path walking which I have missed hugely. If you had told me this back in 2019 then I would have said you were talking c**p. Last year was my coastal…
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