South West Coast Path |
| 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004: Falmouth to Plymouth |
What we did: We picked up the path at Falmouth and crossed to St Mawes via river taxi before we properly started walking, measuring our progress from Place House. Plenty of river estuaries awaited as we completed the south Cornish coast and ended up, deeply puzzled, in Plymouth. The plan was then to walk up the various Erme to Plym trails to Ivybridge. Unfortunately that didn't go quite as expected...
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How to use this index: For each day of the walk we have a page of photographs and a diary page. Simply click on the pictures to get to the photo pages and on the day number to get to the diaries. NB: there is no photo page for the prologue.
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• Prologue |
| A trip down a leafy, meandering branch line is the nicest way possible to arrive in Falmouth. |
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• Day 1 |
| Slogging over headlands and meal breaks in tiny fishing villages - today sets the tone. |
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• Day 2 |
| Aberdeen Angus cattle and a small taste of Scotland in a day dominated by The Dodman. |
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• Day 3 |
| Full-dress waterproofs and a forceful gale had the potential to finish us before we'd really started. |
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• Day 4 |
| Sunny weather and arrival in du Maurier country make up for the Carlyon Bay experience. |
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• Day 5 |
| A tough day - but classic, beautiful clifftop walking takes us over the hills to Polperro. |
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• Day 6 |
| Looe is charming - but apart from that it's an ugly, difficult stage only completists should tackle. |
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• Day 7 |
| Our last coastal day - a long dreary slog, then great walking to lift spirits - finally, a race for a ferry. |
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• Postscript |
| And finally, the tale of how we tried to walk through Plymouth and were very nearly never seen again. |
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