Part 3
Bude to Land's End - May 2024
Porthcothan to Newquay 8 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 17.4km; ascent: 329m Total distance: 17.8km; ascent: 339m Walking time: 4h 15′ Total time: 5h 27′ Overnight: Lyncroft B&B I bought another pasty this morning, cheese and onion this time, … Continue reading →
Padstow to Porthcothan 7 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 21.6km; ascent: 228m Total distance: 21.8km; ascent: 228m Walking time: 5h 06′ Total time: 6h 29′ Overnight: The Old Ship, Padstow Today marked a definite change of terrain. There were … Continue reading →
Port Isaac to Padstow 6 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 17.0km; ascent: 409m Total distance: 18.9km; ascent: 409m Walking time: 5h 02′ Total time: 7h 07′ Overnight: The Old Ship, Padstow Having said goodbye to Di and John I took … Continue reading →
Tintagel to Port Isaac 5 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 14.0km; ascent: 538m Total distance: 15.0km; ascent: 612m Walking time: 4h 19′ Total time: 6h 51′ Overnight: Trewetha Cottage B&B My 9.15 taxi from Boscastle dropped me off at the … Continue reading →
Boscastle to Tintagel 4 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 8.2km; ascent: 259m Total distance: 8.8km; ascent: 305m Walking time: 2h 25′ Total time: 4h 42′ Overnight: The Wellington Hotel, Boscastle An email came in overnight from Amy and Keith … Continue reading →
Crackington Haven to Boscastle 3 May 2024 Distance on Coast Path: 11.3km; ascent: 422m Total distance: 11.5km; ascent: 422m Walking time: 3h 24′ Total time: 4h 53′ Overnight: The Wellington Hotel, Boscastle Amy and Keith were at the bus stop in … Continue reading →
Bude to Crackington Haven 2 May 2024 Getting there: Train to Okehampton, bus to Bude. Overnight: Brendon Arms, Bude Distance on Coast Path: 16.6km; ascent: 542m Total distance: 16.9km; ascent: 542m Walking time: 4h 31′ Total time: 6h 11′ Overnight: … Continue reading →
After I found the second book in this series a bit disappointing (see ‘Dead Lions’) I was slow getting round to reading the next ones. Happily, ‘Real Tigers’ and then ‘Spook Street’ lived up to the promise of the original … Continue reading →
Horowitz has written several books continuing the work of famous authors, notably Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes and Ian Fleming/James Bond. I read one of his Holmes books, ‘House of Silk’, and enjoyed it. This one, a Bond story, not so much. … Continue reading →
This meticulously researched spoof of the diary of a late seventeenth-century student in Oxford who kept a dodo in his room will be specially enjoyed by anyone who knows something about the culture that makes Oxford what it was then … Continue reading →
