Hi everyone,Well I've been up on the coast at Scarborough for over a week now, staying in a friend's lovely flat in the middle of town. Literally 10m across the road to M&S. The weather is dodgy, not especially warm even when sunny. There are lots of tourists about. It is sort of an old fashioned sea side resort with oodles of Victorian hotels and guesthouses lining the Esplanades, and amusement arcades galore. There's 2 nice beaches. There is a coastal walk ...

22/6/15. Falmouth Hi. Well I've had 3 days off now from walking and unfortunately am not 'cured' . My left foot and right knee are still causing pain and slowing my speed to a shuffling senior citizen. I walked more than I should have Saturday in Helston trying to find the local church but had been given very inaccurate instructions and gave up, bought my dinner and retreated to my hotel room. Unfortunately my room backed onto the function room and there was a ...

Day 24. Porthcurno to Penzance. 17 Kms, minus 5 on the bus ,plus 4 to the Standing Stones. 6 hrs+. Hot day. I took the wrong track twice in the first hr ending up on public footpaths which are different. So I missed the monument to Marconi( 1st telegraph cable) and didn't go back. The 2 nd time I crossed paddocks but still couldn't get on the path , so had to drop my pack over a barbed wire fence then squeeze thru. There were more fractured granite r...

I can't understand why but I've lost a weeks worth of a daily diary of my walking. Hours of work. Think I cleared the daily ones but the final one is gone too. Not even going to try and redo it. All I can say I've struggled most days after my lovely 2 days off with Adrian's relatives at a great holiday cottage. The weather for the 6 walking days since has been fine, sunny even but very windy and cold. Fine while I'm walking but need a jumper as soon as I stop. I...

(Photo: St Ives harbour in the rain) 2/6. I had a day off - well from carrying the pack, as I walked into St Ives, checked out the exit route then looked about town. It has nice beaches, a little hill with an old Church and a lifeboat lookout, and then the usual shops selling fudge, pasties, pottery, hand blown glass and kids beach necessities. Lots of tourists as usual despite the showers. No one at the beaches tho. On the harbour jetty a guy parked and let his...