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South West Coast Path

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This blog is to record my experience of walking along the South West Coast Path. At 640 miles long, this National Trail stretches from Minehead on the north Somerset coast, all the way along the North Devon coastline, around the entire coast of Cornwall, along the South Devon coast and then enters Dorset to finish in Poole. For far more photos, maps and information about the South West Coast Path, visit their official website by clicking here. I have generally attempted this walk in week long chunks of walking holidays over several years, and each day of walking has its own blog entry below. The walking diary has had many different homes on many different websites in the time it has taken me to complete the walk so far, and so image quality and size varies throughout the blog. I set out from Minehead for my first day of walking on the 29th of August 2003, with my friend Simon, and I have still not finished at the time of re-homing my diary to this new blog location (May 2017). Part
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Day 47 - Blackpool Sands to Dartmouth - 5 miles

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The weather forecast earlier in the week had been for pretty bad weather on the Saturday, but it had improved as Saturday had got nearer. We had planned a shorter day in case it was bad anyway, and we'd also decided that finishing in Dartmouth for this week's walking attempt would be a good idea. We had both had enough of the strenuous walking of this trip which had lots of cliff ups and downs. The weather wasn't too bad... certainly not as bad as it HAD been forecast earlier in the week. As we were leaving the car at Blackpool Sands for today's walk we decided to go to our by now fairly regular breakfast spot... the cafe on the beach. I decided I would have a proper full english breakfast today...none of this veggie full english that I'd had before, as the vegan sausages had been so yucky. Steve went for an eggs benedict I think? View from seating at Blackpool Sands Beach cafe our breakfast spot before setting off today. Once finished we set off up the
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Day 46 - Beesands to Blackpool Sands - 7 miles

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I was woken by a really heavy shower hammering on the tent...which was exceedingly depressing as the weather forecast had said today was supposed to be one of our brighter days! I couldn't be bothered to get up if it was going to be raining yet again...so closed my eyes again and snoozed for a while. I was less tired than I had been yesterday morning but still pretty weary and really stiff too:( Steve got up and went for a shower before me. I played on my phone for a while before deciding to head up there myself. Steve returned as I was packing my rucksack with change of clothes etc. He headed back up there with me to charge his phone and web surf in the barn while I showered. I had got no pop to drink and so we decided to go into Dartmouth to get provisions before heading over to Beesands to pick up from where we left off walking last night. It was actually sunnyish...the best morning since being here probably...the tent had even begun to dry on the outside by the time we set o
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