Distance: 21.5 km ( 13.4 miles) Total Distance: 1134.8 miles
Margaret and Sean drove me up to the north coast and dropped me off. It was good weather on the south coast but just a few miles away on the north coast it was dense fog. Margaret thus decided to go straight back to the south coast.
I passed a travellers camp near to Cape Cornwall which looked untidy – although they were trying to get close to nature they seemed not to be taking too much care of it at the same time. I climbed the hill at Cape Cornwall thinking that I ought. Pass Cape Cornwall the path was a little hard to follow as it went through a patch of lush vegetation and streams flowed down to the beaches.
Whitesand Bay wasn;t quite my cup of tea. I got to the village of Sennen Cove and walked up the road out of the village and back onto the cliff tops again.
Land’s End has been bought up by a commercial organisation and was crowded with tourists paying a lot of money to say they had been there. Fortunately there was free public access for those on the footpath. I took a photo of the signpost saying miles to anywhere and made a fast get away.
The next section was full of wide paths, cliffs with rock climbers and good views – this is a section I would like to visit again some time.
At Porthcurno it was time to call it a day. I was not yet in the habit of looking up bus timetables so still relied on thumbing a lift. This was a pretty remote spot and I did not fancy walking too much further. Fortunately the Cable and Wireless Training College was in the village and I ended up getting a lift from someone who worked there all the way to Penzance. I would not have been able to do this a few years later because the college packed up and moved to Coventry
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