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| Another day, another drift | 2015-04-06 | Bank holiday Monday promised a little more wind. There was some for about 20 minutes. Then Liz paddled us back.
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| Pole Sands paddling | 2020-08-01 | With ball action on the Pole Sands and Bull Hill, this was doggy heaven. Apart from the kayaking bit and getting a wet bottom when a few waves came over the side of the kayak.
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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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Summer Holiday 2024
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| Fort Picklecombe to Cawsand | 2012-11-25 | Wet. Very wet. Amazingly managed to avoid the rain on this walk to one of the 2 pubs in CawsandKingsand that hadnt been flooded overnight. Excellent fish soup at the Rising Sun.
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November holiday
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| Picklecombe to King William dockyard | 2012-11-26 | From Fort Picklecombe to Mount Edgecumbe and then across the Cremyl Ferry to the King William dock yards. Fearnley Whittingstalls River Cottage Canteen wouldnt serve us. Something about a wet muddy dog. Their loss. The Stable at Mount Edgecumbe did us a lovely cauliflower soup and pampered Scooby with dog biscuits.
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November holiday
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| Cawsand to Rame Head | 2012-11-27 | From Cawsand to Rame Head and back. Scooby pulled like a bxxxxxd much of the way especially when trying to say hello to the horses by the hermits cottage on Rame Head.
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November holiday
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| Fowey to Polruan | 2012-11-28 | From Fowey to Polruan on the Hall Walk. Across the upper car ferry and back on the lower foot ferry
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November holiday
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| Short doggie walk at Seaton | 2012-11-29 | After the stomps of the last few days a short doggie walk at Seaton. Not short for Scooby as he chased the ball all over the low tide beach. Photos of the holiday home Liz used to stay in as a kid at Downderry
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November holiday
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| Trellisick Gardens | 2024-09-11 | Scooby Hound died at 05:00 in the morning at St Columb Major. We got to Trellisick shortly after the sun came up and did one of his favourite walks to pass the time until our next campsite opened.
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Summer Holiday 2024
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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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Summer Holiday 2022
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| Fish and chips in Morthoe | 2019-09-21 | Walk to Morthoe and the rather nice (and huge) fish and chips. Some other bastard had our seats at the cemetery overlooking Woolacombe Bay.
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Summer Holiday 2019
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| Cape Cornwall and Cornish mining | 2013-04-08 | Cape Cornwall is where the tides divide between the English Channel and the Bristol Channel. Apparently.
The post industrial Cornish mining landscape has been the subject of thousands of photographs but is still very impressive if somewhat melancholy.
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April 2013 holiday
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| St Just to Lands End | 2013-04-07 | An excellent walk from St Just to Lands End. Lands End was just as tacky as I remember it from many years ago and the cost of 2 singles and a dog on the 300 bus service back to St Just was just breath taking. But top walk overall.
Gwenver Beach which is a short walk from Sennen Cove makes it into Scoobys top 3 beaches list
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April 2013 holiday
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| Scooby eveing walk at Picklecombe Fort | 2014-01-11 | A short walk along the coast path for Scoobys early evening perambulation.
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Jan 2014 holiday
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| Fort Picklecombe to Cawsand and back | 2014-01-12 | A morning constitutional for Scooby before the rain came in
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Jan 2014 holiday
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| Lizzie birthday walk to Rame Head | 2014-01-13 | From Cawsand to Rame Head on a Lizzie big birthday. Drinking champagne at the end of Rame Head in a hail storm in January!
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| Mylor and Flushing | 2024-09-12 | An old favourite. From Tregunwith Farm to Mylor Bridge, on to Mylor Harbour and then along the estuary to Flushing. Some sun, some rain and an icecream.
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Summer Holiday 2024
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| Pendower Beach | 2022-09-05 | A walk from Portscatho round to Pendower Beach.
In his eagerness to eat a Shetland pony, the bloody dog pulled me backwards arse over tit down into gorse scrub leaving me stung, bleeding, pissed off and with a twisted back. Landed on my head and rucksack (as the photos show).
At this point, we are still not talking!
Walk back was in heavy rain, thunder and lightening.
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Summer Holiday 2022
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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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Summer Holiday 2021
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| Polhawn remembered | 2014-01-16 | Cawsand to Polhawn and along the cliff paths to the View Cafe (shut). Back via Wiggle.
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Jan 2014 holiday
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| Rainbows and rain - Looe to Talland Bay | 2014-01-17 | A circular walk from Looe inland to Talland bay and then back along the coast path. Loads of rainbows - but then it was sunny and rainy. Quite a long walk for us given the ups and downs involved
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Jan 2014 holiday
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| Mylor harbour for breakfast | 2014-09-06 | From Mylor Bridge to Mylor Harbour and on past Restronguet Sailing Club
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Summer holiday 2014
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| Mylor Bridge to the Pandora | 2014-09-06 | Lovely dinner at the Pandora Inn - first of the holiday. The 1 in 4 hill on the way back was a bit of an ask when full of Cornish Ratler and Gurnard (or Guiness and Mackerel in Lizzie's case)
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Summer holiday 2014
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| Mylor to Flushing | 2014-09-07 | Mylor Harbour round to Flushing and then back up Mylor Creek. Top paddle! Very slight swell from SE winds when going along the shore before turning into the the Falmouth shelter.
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Summer holiday 2014
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| Woolacombe | 2023-09-17 | Scooby Hound's favourite place in the whole, wide world. Even beats Perranporth. Football action limited as he doesn't have any sort of idea about taking things easy when on his favourite beaches.
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Summer Holiday 2023
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| Messack Point | 2022-09-04 | For a change, we went north from St Just In Roseland round to Messack Point for lunch.
Very nice walk slightly spoiled by Scooby Hound trying to eat sheep shit and to play with electric cattle fences.
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Summer Holiday 2022
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| Polzeath, Pentire Point and The Rumps | 2022-09-12 | After much swearing at Polzeath at the start of the walk for a failure to provide dog bins or to mark the coastpath (given they don't allow dogs on beaches), it turned into a lovely walk.
Out to Pentire Point and then along to The Rumps (and ancient Brits cost fort).
Quite scary - but not super scary - along the cliff top at time.
Scooby Hound sad he wasn't allowed on any beach.
Then on to Penmayne Farm in Rock.
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| St Anthony Head hound walk | 2014-09-11 | Too windy for canoeing (F5/6 from the east) so a yomp with the hound around St Anthony Head. Top walk with just about the right amount of up and downiness.
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| Anniversary dinner at the Pandora Inn | 2014-09-11 | After the 6.5 miles yomp round St Anthony Head, another mile and half to the Pandora Inn for our anniversary dinner. Fifteen years married, 21 years together and 30 years since we met. Less for murder as they say (and Liz never reads this blog - I think)!
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Summer holiday 2014
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| Manacles, mines & Roskilly's ice cream farm | 2014-09-13 | A walk round part of the Lizard peninsula taking in views of the Manacles rocks, old quarries / mines and then, best of all, on to the farm that makes Roskilly's ice cream!
Some steep up and downy bits along the way.
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| Sunday morning breakfast at Mylor | 2014-09-14 | A walk along Mylor Creek to Mylor Harbour for breakfast. Sat on the beach and watched some boats getting surprised by how windy it was.
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| Trebah Gardens | 2014-09-15 | Liz did plants. Scooby and I did reading and digging holes on the beach (maybe not in that order).
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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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| Rainy Mevagissey | 2022-09-03 | A decent off road walk from Heligan campsite down to Megavissey.
Got rained on in Meva - a lot.
Good coffee on the outer harbour wall.
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| St Mawes to St Just In Roseland | 2025-09-10 | Caught the bus from Merrose Farm Campsite down to St Mawes. Scooby Hound a bit unsure about the bus to start with.
As forecast, the weather gradually got less rainy the closer we got to St Just on our walk.
Rather good lunch at Renwicks Cafe above the church at St Just
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Summer Holiday 2025
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| St Anthonys Head | 2015-09-12 | Liz's second favourite walk. Around St Anthony's Head on the east side of the Fal Estuary. Scooby enjoyed himself immensely but had to be reduced to "two paw drive" when passing a herd of cows on the cliff edge,
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Summer holiday 2015
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| Pandora anniversary dinner | 2015-09-12 | Sixteenth anniversary dinner at the Pandora Inn on the Fal. Only a day late but it was raining yesterday. Lovely food and the Rattler was good too. Sod of a hill on the way "home" when full of food and drink.
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| Breakfast at Mylor | 2015-09-13 | Walk with wife and hound to Mylor for some breakfast. Then along to watch the kids from Restronguet Sailing Club playing "how many times can you capsize a Mirror" in the F5ish winds
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| The Lizard and Kynance Cove | 2015-09-14 | Thought it it be nice to see the most southerly point in Engalnd in a force eight gale. Walking along a cliff top into a 40 knot wind with a less than bright hound on the lead turned out to be hard work! Glad it was a short walk.
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| Padstow | 2023-09-13 | A short walk from Dennis Cove Campsite into Padstow.
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Summer Holiday 2023
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| Railway Inn, St Agnes | 2022-09-10 | A walk into St Agnes to the Railway Inn. Served Aspall's cider, Guiness and the haddock and chips were fine for just over a tenner.
Recommended.
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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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Summer Holiday 2019
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| Rosemullion Head and Mawnan | 2015-09-18 | Round Rosemullion Head and back via Mawnan Smith. Lovely walk but the plan was slightly spoilt as the midges on the Head put paid to the idea of reading there for a couple of hours.
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| Creeks and kingfishers | 2015-09-19 | First canoe trip of the 2015 summer holiday. From Mylor harbour, a little way up Restronguet creek up past the Pandora Inn, on to Looe Beach and then back via Mylor Creek. Had a kingfisher with us for quite a way up Mylor creek.
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| More creeks and kingfishers | 2015-09-20 | A paddle round the creeks of the Helford. More kingfishers today - in Frenchman's Creek. Lunch at Merthen Quay and then back via Polwheveral and Porthnavas creeks
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| Malpas and St Clement | 2015-09-21 | A shortish walk round Malpas and St Clement. Found a good canoe launching slipway just south of Truro at Sunny Corner Quay. Seafood platter for lunch at The Heron in Malpas was good.
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| Helston, The Loe and Porthleven | 2015-09-22 | From Helston to Porthleven via The Loe (the largest freshwater lake in Cornwall held in by Loe Bar) and the Penrose Estate.
Porthleven nice but Liz noticed that 4 out of every 5 houses is a holiday let.
Liz enraptured with the Salty Caramel ice cream.
Porthleven is, apparently, the most southerly port in the UK.
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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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Summer Holiday 2023
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| Port Quin to Port Issac | 2024-09-19 | So the walking guide said there would be sections of the walk from Port Quin to Port Issac that would be unfenced vertical drops. I was hoping that they'd be towards the end where it would be too much effort to turn around. But they were right from the start. I like my coast paths to have a wall or a field or preferably both between me and instant death. Not about one foot and then oblivion. So we turned round and tried an alternate root. But that didn't work out either so we retraced our steps and took the inland root.
Port Issac nice enough in an "overrun by tourists with a Doc Martin fetish" sort of way.
No complaints about the pasty or ice cream though.
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Summer Holiday 2024
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| Godrevy and Trehidy | 2019-09-16 | Walk along the coast path to Hell's Mouth Cafe. Seafood chowder was excellent again (and the cheesy chips weren't really necessary). Then inland via Trehidy Park (which Liz liked) and then back along a now very misty coast path.
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Summer Holiday 2019
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| Quick paddle round Cawsand/Kingsand bay | 2015-09-25 | The forecast offshore north to north west turned out to be almost a southerly so there some small waves as we headed off from Cawsand to Fort Picklecombe. So we turned round and went a little way towards Penlee Point. A very short paddle overall but it broke up the drive home at the end of our summer holidays.
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| North Lees Campsite | 2016-09-03 | An over night stop in the peak district - near Kinder Scout - on the way up north.
First injury to my back falling over pushing a stalled motor home out of a rut.
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| Hadrians Wall Campsite | 2016-09-04 | A comspite near Hadrians Wall - the middle bit!
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| Aidan's fall on Hadrian's Wall | 2016-09-04 | A march along some of the best bits of Hadrians Wall. Sheltered behind the wall from a sudden rain/hail shower and felt very "Roman Centurion" like. Didn't feel quite so Centurion like when I slipped coming down one steep part of the wall and bounced badly on my side buggering up my back for much of the holiday!
Stunning walk though.
Then on to Vindolanda.
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| Seahouses to Bamburgh | 2016-09-05 | First walk along the Northumbrian coast.
From just north of Seahouses along to just south of Bamburgh.
The Northumberland beaches are just as stunning as expected.
Scooby very impressed if this was to be the quality of the beaches for the next two weeks.
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Summer holiday 2016
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| Helford to Gweek paddle | 2024-09-13 | Launched the Sea Eagle inflatable kayak at Helford and paddled up past the Seal Sanctuary to Gweek Boatyard. Which was a surprise as I didn't think, at the start, that either of us fancied paddling that much.
Lunch at Tremayne Quay as usual.
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Summer Holiday 2024
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| Bude | 2021-09-22 | Up the Bude Canal. Some locks and a "portage". After the 3rd lock the water got a bit gloopy and a bit low so we stopped at that point. Spent the paddle back debating whether the £5 fee was a rip off or we were glad to "contribute" to the ongoing maintenance of the canal. Got to the sea - and Scooby thought about jumping out and going for a stroll on the beach.
Also some photos from Bude beach the previous day.
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Summer Holiday 2021
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| Lamorna Cove to Mousehole | 2019-09-15 | Along from Lamorna Cover on the coast path to the tourist trap that is Mousehole. Extortionate wraps in a cafe. Home across the fields and the ice cream at the cafe in Lamorna.
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| Berwick On Tweed | 2016-09-08 | A quick walk round Berwick on Tweed - the last English town before heading into Scotland.
Probably didn't do it justice but saw some of the town walls that Elizabeth I spent so much on!
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| Cheswick Beach | 2016-09-09 | On the advice of Scott C from work, we took the back roads to find Cheswick Beach.
Another top Northumbrian beach according to Scooby hound.
The beach was pretty much deserted.
May be that was due to the warning signs about unexploded ordnance and areas of quicksand?
We took the view that that was just the locals trying to keep the grockles from their favourite beach (is grockle the correct term up north?).
Anyway - we didn't explode or sink but maybe we turned round slightly earlier than we would normally have!
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| Warkworth | 2016-09-09 | Stayed at a lovely campsite just outside Warkworth - Walkmill Campsite - recommended.
Walked into Warkworth and had a look at the outside of the castle - my do English Heritage know how to charge!
Then tried a couple of the pubs in town.
The GPS looks as though it went a little crazy while we were in The Sun in Walkworth - that's understandable as the decor is really something. Not sure how to describe it - maybe a mix between Camelot and your favourite local. Still - surprisingly - a big "thumbs up" from us due to its friendly staff and the (huge) size and quality of our dinner!
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| Walkworth to Amble | 2016-09-10 | As Scooby had seen the signs to the beach when we were in Walkworth the previous day, we had to come back to try the beach out.
Unfortunately, as we were heading on later in the day, it meant that we had to be on the beach before low tide.
To be fair, Scooby didn't complain too much but the "tennis ball bounciness" was below par compared to the rest of the holiday.
Walked as far as Amble looking for a breakfast egg & chips but reluctant to swim across the harbour just for a second breakfast.
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| Alnwick | 2016-09-10 | A short walk around Alnwick,
Again, we were too tight to pay the entrance fee for the castle.
Mainly we wanted to see "Barter Books" - the second hand book shop in the old train station.
An excellent, excellent shop. Long may they flourish after Starbucks, Next and all the others have fallen out of fashion and had a quick bankcruptcy.
One can but hope - I could have spent hours in the place!
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| Cawsand to Plymouth | 2023-09-05 | Too windy to go kayaking so we took the ferry from Cawsand to Plymouth - the first time in all the years we've been coming to Cawsand / Kingsand.
A very "rolly" boat for the F5 winds (but given that it "lands" on the beach at Cawsand I guess it doesn't have much draught.
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Summer Holiday 2023
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| Camel Trail | 2021-09-20 | The walking guide book we were using was sxxx! At least we thought it was. Wasn't so bad when we finally realised it was directing us _south_ along the Camel Trail (and not north towards Padstow as we'd assumed). Doh!
A reasonable walk. Green lanes and then back along the Camel Trail. No great vistas and views. Maybe a 6 out of 10.
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Summer Holiday 2021
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| Lands End, Sennen and Gwynver Beach | 2019-09-14 | Had another free day's parking on the extornionate £6 Lands End parking fee. Walked to Sennen and saw lots of yachts doing the "inshore passage" round Lands' End. On to Gwynver beach (because Scooby asked). Ice creams at Sennen and then back to Treen and G&Ts on the cliff top as the sun went down (and the nudists disappeared).
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Summer Holiday 2019
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| Conniston, Wray and Windemere | 2016-09-12 | Via Kirkstone Pass and Connistone Water and then on to Windemere.
An NT campsite on the shores on Lake Windemere.
A lovely campsite and a walk along Windemere and back past Wray Castle
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Summer holiday 2016
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| Lligwy beach and Moelfre | 2016-09-13 | On to an Anglesey and the rather excellent Lligwy Beach.
Scooby happy that the "beach quotient" picking up again.
Then along the cliff top to the pub in Moelfre and back again.
The campsite we were staying at was good with a gate right on to the beach. However, the rules and regulations were a little OTT
Actually, we'd recommend the place but they do themselves no favours with their rules and regs so we went on looking for the more liberal parts of Anglesey (well - one can live in hope).
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| Llanddwyn Bay and Island | 2016-09-14 | The stunning Lllanddwyn Bay on Anglesey at low tide.
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A heatwave hit (for one day) and we went along Lllanddwyn Bay with the mountains on Snowdonia in the misty background.
On this day, with the heatwave, it was as good as any beach either Liz or I had wandered along anywhere in the world. And it was on Anglesey!
Skipping on past most of Ynys LLanddwyn island (dog ban until end of September) we wandered on a little to the next huge bay.
Wow!
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| Blackthorn Farm | 2016-09-14 | On to Blackthorn Farm campsite.
A nice spot just outside Holyhead,
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| Kennexstone Camping | 2016-09-15 | Down from Anglesey to the Gower Peninsula in south Wales.
Kennexstone Camping was a lovely spot on the south west side of the Gower.
The camp site and the Gower were so nice we slowed down a bit a stayed for three days,
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| Penlee Point | 2023-09-04 | Very hot day so too hot to take Scooby on our usual Rame Head walk. So we stopped at Penlee Point and watched a helicopter taking off with supplies for the Eddystone Light House.
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Summer Holiday 2023
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| Pityme pub walk | 2021-09-19 | To the village of Pityme for a pint.
Scooby demanded a bit more of a walk of his "restrictions" on Perranporth.
The OS 1:25000 maps on the GPS found a "shortcut" through some fields of corn - came out right by Sharps Brewery (of Doom Bar beer fame - not that either of us drink beer).
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Summer Holiday 2021
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| Rame head walk - again! | 2021-09-11 | Lizzie's favourite walk again. This time from the campsite on Maker Heights - just to give it a bit more up and downyness.
Hot - so quite hard work for an eight mile walk.
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| The Lizard and Cadgwith | 2017-09-13 | From Henrys Place campsite at the Lizard (not our favourite of the holiday) long the cliff tops to Cadgwith and then back inland. Made a change to our more usual walks towards Kynance Cove.
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Summer Holiday 2017
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| Porthcurno and Porthgwarra | 2017-09-14 | From Treen Campsite (one of our favourites), a mixture of clifftops and a little inland to Porthgwarra. Back past the Minack Theatre.
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| Lamorna Cove and Tater-du Light | 2017-09-15 | The coast path from Lamorna Cove was marked as a bit "iffy" so we made our own route inland and then joining back with the main coastal path. Past the gloriously named Tater-du lighthouse. Unfortunately, the path we'd spotted on the map to come back via had a big PRIVATE sign on it so we ended up doing an "out and back" walk.
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Summer Holiday 2017
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| Sennen, Gwynver and Nanquidno | 2017-09-16 | Another "lets look at the map and start walking" walk. Back via Gwynver Beach - one of Scooby's top 10 beaches in the world. Unfortunately, it was nearly high tide so not much beack for Scooby this time.
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Summer Holiday 2017
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| Gwithian Towans | 2017-09-17 | From Gwithian FRam Campsite, a short walk along Gwithian Towans Beach. As the tide was coming in, we came back along the cliff top. Another top beach according to Scooby.
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| Bigbury | 2023-09-01 | Staying at the very nice Folly Farm camp site. A walk down to Bigbury beach to susss out tomorrow's kayaking opportunities.
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Summer Holiday 2023
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| Perranporth for Scooby Hound | 2021-09-19 | Scooby Hound would have the sulks for weeks if he found at we'd been to Cornwall an not given him a low tide walk at Perranporth.
Sccoby's knocking on a bit but would still run until he drops - it's just that he'd drop a bit earlier these days so the "ball action" has to be rationed a little bit.
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| Soggy Padstow | 2022-09-13 | Back to Padstow on the Rock ferry.
Another very soggy day but we felt we ought to make the effort to get out and about a little bit.
Scooby Hound grateful for beach run-arounds on Rock Beach and Lower Beach at Padstow. He didn't like the town much (getting trod on twice).
On reflection, we missed a trick not going out for a paddle around low tide on the Camel. There's enough at the lower end of the estuary to make it an interesting paddle at low tide.
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Summer Holiday 2022
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| Woolacombe and Putsborough | 2017-09-22 | Scooby wouldnt have been happy if we'd come to north Devon and not given him a run along Woolacombe Beach at low tide. In a fairly wet and windy two week holiday, this was the only walk where we actually got soaked by the rain. However, we dried out a bit in the cafe at Putsborough and then the walk back in the wind meant that we were dry by the time we got back to the camper van on Marine Drive.
The photos include a couple from North Morte campsite looking at the sunset over Lundy Island.
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Summer Holiday 2017
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| Saunton Sands and Burrows | 2017-09-23 | Scooby's final beach walk of the holiday. Along the seemingly endless Saunton Sands at low tide. Then back inland to the east of the Burrows before finally cutting across the Burrows to give Scooby a final bit of of beach action before an ice cream at Saunton Sands.
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Summer Holiday 2017
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| Prawle Point and The Pigs Nose Pub | 2018-09-01 | Down to Prawle Point - the most southerly point in Devon and a headland well known to sailors!
Pint at the Pigs Nose pub.
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Summer Holiday 2018
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| Polkerris Beach | 2018-09-02 | Stayed at Penhale camp site near Fowey. A short walk to Polkerris Beach where we knew that dogs were banned but didn't know that the ice cream shop would shut up shop at half four - outrageous!
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Summer Holiday 2018
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| Constantine Bay | 2025-09-17 | Having hidden in the van all day from the rain, wind and mizzle, the need to avoid going stir crazy lead to a short walk to Constantine Bay. Nice coffee and cake though.
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Summer Holiday 2025
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| Morthoe walk | 2022-09-18 | A slightly new take on an old favourite walk around Morthoe.
A long walk for us - especially given the slightly fearsome uppy/downy bits on the coast path.
The final climb to Morte Point was just as super-scary as I remembered it.
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Summer Holiday 2022
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| Perranporth | 2022-09-11 | Well - we couldn't go to north Cornwall without taking Scooby Hound to Perranporth (his 2nd all time favourite beach after Woolacombe).
Although he doesn't know it, he's getting on a bit now so for the first time ever we rationed him to only half the length of Perranporth beach. Still a happy hound.
Some strange sort of "surf kayak" event going on.
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Summer Holiday 2022
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| Treen to Lands End | 2025-09-15 | Dodged the rain to walk from Treen via Porthcurno and Porthgwarra to Lands End.
Exhausting walking into the 40 to 50mph westerlies (yellow wind warning). Because we didn't fancy the coast path so close to the cliff edge at Nanjizal Bay, we cut inland for the last part of the walk.
Lands End just as tacky as ever.
Then caught the bus back to Treen.
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Summer Holiday 2025
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| Logan Rock and Penberth Cove | 2018-09-07 | On to one of our favourite campsites - Treen (just near the Minack Theatre and Lands End).
Photos are from the "nature ramble" that Liz went on - organised by the Treen pirate. Photos of Scooby at Penberth Cove are by Liz as the nature ramble also went that way.
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Summer Holiday 2018
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| Gwenapp Head | 2018-09-08 | Another new take on a favourite walk. From Treen, via St Levans, Porthgwarra and on to Gwenapp Head (just along from Lands End and happily not touched by the awful tat at Lands End).
We could see the rain showers getting blown in from the Atlantic - but as they were mostly horizontal it was possible to keep mostly dry by sheltering behind lumps of granite.
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| Pendeen and Portheras Cove | 2018-09-09 | A new walk to Pendeen Lighthouse and the stunning Porteras Cove which we'd not been to before.
Took a wrong turn down to the "Boat Cove" and then took a little while to figure out how to actually get to Portheras Cove (it's via a path high above the cove and then down to the beach on the eastern end).
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| Godrevy and Hells Mouth Cafe | 2018-09-10 | Met up with Ruth and Derek H for a revisit of the walk past Godrevy Lighthouse and on to Hells Mouth Cafe.
Lots of seals in the cover just past Godrevy Lighthouse - they are the blurry black blob things in the photos.
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| Treyarnon Beach | 2025-09-16 | A short walk from Trethias Farm Campsite to Treyarnon Bay.
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| The Lizard | 2024-09-14 | A lovely walk round the end of the Lizard peninsula. We'd done a similar walk before on a dreek day and been disappointed. Today in the sun and breeze it was a completely different walk. A highlight was visiting the rather stunning RNLI station on the east side if the Lizard at Church Cove.
Roskilly's ice cream at Lizard Point and then a rather good pasty back at the village.
Then on to the campsite at Porthleven.
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| Carlyon Bay to Charlestown | 2025-09-08 | From the Carlyon Bay Camping Park along the coast path to Charlestown.
I think Charlestown was looking a little sad. There was some work started on changes to the harbour but is was closed (part from a large Border Force rib stooging about).
Pretty good fish and chips on the harbour at Charlestown and then back along the coast path.
Carlyon Bay Camping Park is expensive but rather good.
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| Maker and Cawsand | 2019-09-09 | Wet start to day - headed off to try & find camp-site @ Bovisand for a different view of the Plymouth Break water, got hoplessly lost so detoured to Maker. Camping back in our favourite field. Walk into Kingsand & Cawsand. Scooby nearly lost his ball but was very brave & eventually retrieved it. Pint in the old Cawsand Bay Hotel area - now called "The Bar." Watched Rame Gig go out & some unusual fishing boats moored in the bay.
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| Woolacombe Beach | 2018-09-16 | Last day of our holiday and a quick walk along Woolacombe Beach - Scooby hound would not have been pleased if we'd left without giving him a run along the beach.
Met Cathy and Mark S at Putsborough - we were sitting having an ice cream and they were just finishing their first surfing session of the day.
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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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