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| Bolberry and Hope Cove | 2021-09-10 | A walk down from Bolberry Farm Camping to Hope Cove for a pint.
Fxxx me - £10 for two pints! Are we in London? Wow.
Nice walk and campsite though.
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Bolberry Farm
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| Bolberry Down and Soar Mill Sove | 2019-09-07 | First day of hols! Whiteley's off to new camp-site near Salcombe - remember for family happiness mobile signal not great for route finding! New camp-site with very friendly owners.Walked to Saw Mill Cove lots of dog swimming & ball throwing. Views of Rame Head (Liz's favourite headland!), Burgh Island & the Eddystone. Expensive pints at newly furbished bar on way back.
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Bolberry Down
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| Salcombe, Soar and Bolberry | 2019-09-08 | Walk across fields to Salcombe via aerodrome (with plane landing) Overbecks, steep hills, South sands, North Sands (where Scooby was allowed to swim & do ball chasing). Lunch in Salcombe with rip off fish & chips (definitely paid for the view). Ferry ride back to South Sands (1st ferry trip of many) & ice cream. Long walk back to van -frieindly natives helping with getting past field of cows - mum, calves & some with horns...described as docile. Everyone quite tired!
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Bolberry
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| Chapel Porth | 2021-09-18 | In the rain and mist. Always seems to be mizzly when we come to St Agnes.
Wheal Coates mine very atmospheric in the mist.
Surprised at how little beach there was at Chapel Porth at mid tide. We'll have to come back closer to low tide.
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Beacon Cottage Farm
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| Back to Morthoe | 2019-04-25 | Back to Lizzie's favourite campervan site - North Morte Farm at Morthoe.
A rather wet and windy day (it got windier!) so we did a pub crawl of all of Morthoe's pubs (the Chichester Arms and the Ship Aground) and then took some rather good fish and chips to the bench below Morthoe Cemetary for a stunning view over Woolacombe Bay.
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North Morte Farm
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| Dinner at The Pandora Inn | 2019-07-12 | From Tregunwith Farm camping down to The Pandora Inn for dinner.
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Tregunwith Farm
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| St Agnes and Trevaunce | 2019-09-17 | From Beacone Cottage Fram along the coast path to chat to a very friendly chappie in the St Agnes Head NCI lookot. Then on lunch in a cafe overlooking the beach at Trevaunce and then, of course, some Scooby "ball action" on the beach. Back via Sta Agnes and The Beacon.
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Beacon Cottage Farm
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| Darts Farm boot shopping | 2020-01-20 | Round to Darts Farm and Topsham with Liz to buy some new walking boots.
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Darts Farm
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| Topsham cycle ride | 2020-03-09 | Round to Darts Farm. Stopped at Topsham Quay to see who was working on their boat and for coffee and a hot cross bun.
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Darts Farm
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| Trevose Head | 2019-04-23 | Four beaches in one walk - Scooby in doggie heaven.
In the campervan at the very nice Trehias Farm Camping - near Trevose Head (just west of Padstow).
Walk via Treyarnon Bay, Constantine Bay, Long Cove and Harlyn Beach - all dog friendly beaches.
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Trethias Farm
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| Mylor Harbour | 2022-09-06 | A dog walk from Tregunwith Farm to Mylor Harbour.
Managed to avoid the heaviest rain while having coffee at Mylor.
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Tregunwith Farm
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| Pandorra Inn | 2023-05-16 | Dinner at the Pandorra Inn.
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Tregunwith Farm
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| St Agnes | 2023-09-12 | Scooby Hound was feeling a bit poorly (not eating - very unlike him) so his walk on Perranporth was cancelled).
My mid afternoon he'd picked up and wolfed down a late lunch. So we had a short walk to a alter lunch at the Wheal Coates Tea Room.
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Beacon Cottage Farm
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| Morte Point | 2023-09-16 | With Scooby now a bit of an old boy, we did a shorter than usual walk round Morte Point. Age is no barrier to him lunging for sheep (he's on the lead) and eating sheep shit.
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North Morte Farm
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| St Teath | 2024-09-18 | Dinner at The White Hart in St Teath. Nice enough pub with decent food.
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Rosebud Farm Camping
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| Woolacombe Beach | 2025-04-12 | Tye's first outing at Woolacombe Beach. Didn't disgrace us too much - except at the end when he went a bit "long range" and was slow coming back when called.
Overall - a success.
A start of the season 3 night stay at North Morte Farm in the camper van.
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Morte Farm
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| Midhowe broch and tomb | 2026-05-21 | If you like your history or archaeology, Rousay is a simply stunning place! Known, apparently, as "the Egypt of the north" for the concentration of ancient sites, a few miles along the south west coast of
Rousay is full of archaeology.
First up, the "Westness walk" and the stand outs of the Midhowe Broch and the Midhowe Tomb.
The broch is one of Scotland's best preserved and dates from about 200BC to 200AD.
Right next to it is Midhowe chambered cairn which is about 5000 years old. It is now housed in a "warehouse" with gantries that allow you to walk above the cairn. It housed 25 bodies in their own "stalls" (leading to the nickname the "great ship of death").
A wealthy local distiller in the 1930s excavated and "preserved" a lot of the Rousay tombs with steel and concrete which has its pros and cons. With all the places we visited on Rousay we could walk right into the sites and were the only people there.
The "Westness Walk" continues through sites with iron age, pictish, viking and later origins. For example, it was great to know we were walking through the site where Earl Paul the Silent was abducted by Swein Asleifsson while hunting for otters. Tye was strictly on the lead as he was hunting for otters in the same spot a 1000 years later.
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Skaill Farm
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| Looe | 2017-09-12 | A walk from Bay View Farm campsite down to Looe, on to Hannafore Point and then opposite St Georges Island
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Bay View Farm
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| Scooby takes Julian for a drag | 2013-12-28 | A walk round the local fields. Scooby shows his enthusiasm for 2nd walk in one morning!
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farm track walk
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| Treen coast path walk | 2016-06-18 | A coast path walk from Treen campsite (near Porthcurno which is near Lands End). The guide book said 4.5 miles but it ended up being 7.2 miles AND with lots of up and downie bits as well. Very nice though.
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Treen Farm Campsite
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| Tregunwith Farm to Mylor Harbour | 2016-07-09 | From Tregunwith Farm campsite to Mylor Harbour and a little way beyond.
Saw Pat T and Graham I just coming back from a Tideway outing.
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Tregunwith Farm
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| Tregunwith to Pandora Inn | 2016-07-10 | From Tregunwith Farm Campsite to the Pandora Inn on Restronguet Creek for dinner. Two pints of Rattler helped out on the walk back up the hill from the Pandora.
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Tregunwith Farm
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| Demense Farm In Bellingham | 2016-09-10 | Heading west, we were back just below Hardrians Wall at Demense Farm campsite in Bellingham.
A campsite on another working farm, Lizzie may object to me mentioning that she complained about the cow mooing overnight.
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Demense Farm
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| Blackthorn Farm | 2016-09-14 | On to Blackthorn Farm campsite.
A nice spot just outside Holyhead,
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Blackthorn Farm
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| Darts Farm and back | 2017-01-07 | Off to Darts Fram to hire a tandem for Liz's birthday next week. Liz bought a leek!
Average speed distorted by the time spent shuffling round Darts Farm while Liz looked for other stuff to buy.
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Darts Farm
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| Budleigh on a tandem | 2017-01-14 | Darts Farm, Topsham to Budleigh Salterton and back. Liz's birthday present - a ride on a tandem. Quite a nice tandem - a Dawes hired from Darts Farm at Topsham.
Some of the cycle track between Exmouth and Budleigh was being dug up so we had to go "off piste" for a bit and that meant going up some hills!
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Darts Farm
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| Liz, Jill and Ben stroke Agas | 2013-07-05 | Liz, Jill and Ben cycle to Darts Farm and lust after the Aga cookers. Jills son probably not so impressed. Back via Topsham.
Average speed severely affected by taking GPS with them when Aga stroking.
Rather unbelievable max speed generated when Liz heads towards the till mistakenly believing she can actually aford an Aga.
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Darts Farm
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| Godrevy and Hells Mouth | 2017-09-18 | From Gwithian Farm campsite, past Godrevy Beach and on past Godrevy Lighthouse. Then on past an inaccessible cove where about 15-20 seals were resting, Then on to the rather splendidly named Hells Mouth where the lonely Hells Mouth Cafe did a great cappuccino.
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Gwithian Farm
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| Hartland Quay | 2017-09-20 | A short walk to dinner from Stoke Barton Campsite on Hartland Point.
Hartland Point is a scary place if you think about sailing near it in the wind or fog and the granite "teeth" of the rocks only enhance this.
The Hartland Quay Hotel was a really nice pub doing good food.
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Stoke Barton Farm
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| Lympstone and back | 2017-10-23 | Round to Lympstone with Liz and back via Darts Farm
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Darts Farm
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| Lympstone and Darts Farm | 2018-01-14 | Round to Lympstone and then on to Darts Farm to buy some new walking boots for Liz.
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Darts Farm
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| Helford Passage to Gweek | 2018-07-08 | On yet another stunning 2018 summer's day, we put the canoe in just past the Helford Passage and paddled up to Geewk at the top of the Helford.
Then a dawdle back stopping at an old lime quay.
Highlight of the day for Liz was teaching Scooby to enjoy swimming! We think that his buoyancy aid may have helped.
At Penwarne Farm Campsite - lovely views in a field overlooking the sea between Falmouth and the Helford.
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Penwarne Farm
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| Dinner at the Pandorra | 2018-07-06 | Walking the hound from Tregunwith to the Pandorra Inn.
At Tregunwith Farm with the camper van - great location, friendly owners, relaxed atmosphere and great prices. Don't tell anyone else!
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Tregunwith Farm
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| St Agnes and Wheal Coates | 2018-09-11 | On to Beacon Farm Cottage camp site and the only day of the two weeks that was really lost to the weather.
As soon as we got to the campsite and sat down to admire the view, the fog and mizzle came in with a vengeance.
So we only did a short walk to the Wheal Cotes mine - very atmospheric perched on the cliff side and appearing out the gloom. The photos of fog and mist may not be the most exciting if you weren't there...
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Beacon Cottage Farm
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