Obviously longer strides
After a pretty decent night’s sleep, we had a very leisurely start to the day. The plan was (vaguely) to go on a coastal walk. We sat around in the van, drinking tea and doing wordle (Sue got a 2 the other day). We were also wondering if Stuart would finish his LE – JOG (Land’s End To John O’Groats) bike ride. Something that was to keep us entertained for most of our walk.
We eventually got going and Sue went to check on how we got to the coastal path from here… basically head for the beach. However, this involved a precipitous climb down the gorge that is Porthtowan and then immediately scaling back up a very steep road (with lots of building going on ) to the top of the cliffs. Hopefully, there is a flatter way back… we shall see, or we could get the bus.
As far as Cornish coastal walks go, it wasn’t the best but still pretty spectacular with lovely breaks in the monotony of the flat cliff-top sections with probably the steepest climbs up and down we have come across.
We eventually descended into Portreath, and Sue was getting 50p toilet anxiety and accosted some poor local to enquire if the toilets were free. Apparently they were! We grabbed a large steak pasty from the Portreath Bakers (this has been done many times before!) and we sat down by the front to gorge them.
So could we get the bus back? …. not unless we waited the best part of 4 hours! So we consoled ourselves with an ice cream (talk about shrinkflation) from the store and set off back up the hill. It was a bit of a slog but we did manage to avoid having to go down to Porthtowan beach, but the walk along the road was a little hazardous. We were kept entertained by Stuart being met by Elaine at JOG, very impressive.
There is a wedding here tomorrow, which should be interesting, but unfortunately, a lot of the site will be closed to us, but we will probably go off in the van, leaving our drive away( – not upto) awning pitched.
We got back to the van for a very welcome couple of cups of tea. I then cooked a pretty delicious dinner of previously boiled new potatoes fried with chorizo (pronounced with a ‘th’ not ‘z’) , coleslaw and fried halloumi, washed down with a cold Guiness Zero. We then went to the bar where the wedding guests seemed to be congregating already.
This was followed by watching RATW (Race Across The World) on the beeb and then to sleep…. and I slept through the night!
