South West Coastal Path
Hiking the 630 miles of coastal Path from Poole in Dorset to Minehead in Somerset Hike SummaryThe South West Coastal Path
Poole to Minehead- For more information you can visit the official SW Coastal Path website here
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News from the trail
Annoying diversions and then pretty perfect
Wet night in camp Jenny wasn’t too happy with her first campsite booking. It was quite a strange setup and didn’t really have proper facilities like a decent shower block. When she picked me up from Porthallow she said that some of my wild camps had probably had...
Perfect but then diversions
The weather stopped After a great night in camp I woke up to just the sound of the sea. We were in a very sheltered spot but had been able to hear the wind all night in the trees and that noise had now stopped. All was calm. I checked the ferry service and it was on...
First day proper
So this is why you shouldn’t hike in the dark I was thinking it was because you might fall to your death off the edge of a cliff, with your final thoughts being that you should have got that earlier train, shortly followed by knowing Jenny’s going to kill me. I was...
Infinite Progress
The plan I’m not sure why I thought my plan for how to start the walk was going to be so easy. I think I knew when I made the plan that it’d be quite tight on time scales, but as this was a while ago I think I forgot. So, roughly it was as follows - Walk to Leicester...