Land’s End to Trevedra - 5 miles. Trevedra to Penzance - 10 miles.

This is a two for one blog because last night we were too frazzled and tired to write anything. Tonight, however, we are relaxing in Premier Inn luxury and are just about awake. Well, I am. Roo is bouncing on my legs so they’re recovered!

Day One started with lovely mild weather as we walked to the “official” Land’s End Signpost (note capitals) where some windswept tourists looked baffled as we stretched our T-shirts on and paid a nice man £10.95 for An Official Photo, thus:

We’re really not following the Coast Path particularly strictly; our goal is to get to John O’Groats, not to follow one path. So we walked “backwards” along the path to Sennen Cove, and up (and up) to our campsite. Enough to make me want to come back and actually do the Coast Path because, gosh.

I don’t have any photos nearly good enough to capture the luminescence of the sea, the sky, the brief highlights of sun. And the colours even on a wet spring day. [Roo says it was amazing]

Then there was lunch on a beach, sand in sandwiches and everything. By the time we got to the campsite it was raining and we were sore. Suddenly everything was just a bit difficult and there were too many flies in tent for Roo. [Roo: “It was windy, part of the tent kept smacking me in the head and there was rain. Rain, rain, rain.”]

Today was “Penzance the easy way”, avoiding the A30 as much as possible. We found a route along Cornish lanes, bird spotting and tractor dodging as we went.

Walking down to Penzance was a challenge [Roo: “Even the level ground was slanted.”] Mr K had booked us a Premier Inn room so we could dry the tent and gubbins out overnight. So far, so good I think. Roo is struggling with the “not just a day trip” of it all, and really isn’t sure Mr K is feeding Max the cat properly. But they said today that “there are good bits and bad bits always” and I think that’s a sensible place to be this evening.

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