South West Coast Way

I slept pretty badly through the night. I woke up at about 4am rather cold, but not cold enough to risk putting even colder clothes on! Also a sort of back of nose and throat sore sensation had developed.. not the beginning of a cold coming out surely:/ The showers at the site were pretty shitty, but we were up early and so got to use them before any sort of rush could develop for the two cubicles one of which was broken:/ Once the tent was packed up we wandered off in search of some breakfast and lunch supplies, being a little worried that we wouldn't actually find anywhere open so early on a Sunday morning in such a small place, which would mean pretty much no food all day let alone for breakfast. Luckily, around the corner, the general store was open and although its selection was mediocre to say the least, we would be eating SOMETHING today! Yay! I bought a pasty for my breakfast.. only a Pork Farms packet one but food at least, though I waited until we'd trudged along to

With going to bed so early, I woke up correspondingly early, at about 6am, and went to have a shower in the lovely toilet block. The sun was just rising and was beautiful, making the bay and distant hills over the channel purples, pinks and blues. I sat writing this, while Simon got up and then we put the tent down and got ready to face the first day of our challenge. We stomped down to Minehead and bought some breakfast in the Co-op. I had bacon and egg sarnies and also bought some bread and houmous and garlic sausage for a picnic lunch. We wandered down to the beach to eat the breakfast and then wandered along to the sculpture that marks the beginning of the walk. Photos taken we set off, zig zagging steeply up through woods and overlooking the harbour. After this initial rapid height gain, the path became a much more gentle rise and rather pleasant. Wonderful view as we leave the campsite in Minehead and set off down to buy breakfast and then set off on what will be a MAMMOTH

I got up at normal work time even though I was off this Friday. I finished packing my rucksack and when mum had dropped dad off at the shop and I'd got money out of the hole in the wall, she took me to Nuneaton station. I decided that I had time to go and buy a lighter-weight raincoat from Millett's as my ruck sack was FAR too heavy and was worrying me more than slightly!! My existing raincoat that I'd packed was quite heavy and every few grammes saved would help. I managed to get one and then went back to the station and waited for the 10.15am train to Birmingham New Street. Simon was waiting in the allotted spot by WH Smiths when I arrived and our train down to Taunton came in early so we went and found our seats 33 & 34 in coach D. The racks over the seats in the new space age Virgin train weren't big enough for the rucksack, but I took things off it and wedged it in somehow. The journey down to Taunton was only 2 hours ish which was fab. We went and asked at t