SWCP: Lulworth Cove to Kimmeridge

 

Finally, two and a half years after I turned up at the gate to the Lulworth military ranges only to find it closed for the day, I have completed the missed bit. First, though, I walked (again) from Osmington Mills, as that was the route being done by Laura, Alison and Angie. 

This bit:

The reality of it looked like this though. The weather was beautiful and not too hot. 

This is the gate that was shut and locked
when I turned up here in May 2022.

Scratchy bottom

Approaching Kimmeridge at 7pm. It took us ten hours! Including the ice cream stop in Lulworth Cove.

You can see the Clavell Tower

 

SWCP: Penzance to Marazion

 

Today was a one-hour bus ride (which included an entertaining F-bomb argument between the bus driver and an idiot driver) followed by just a little stroll of three miles, mostly along a cycleway. There was a good view of St Michael’s Mount the whole way. I’ve got used to carrying 10kg or so on my back and will feel light without it! Made two phone calls to Trainline, one at 8am when they opened, to book a seat on the 2.20 train as the one I’d planned to get (at 12.20) had been cancelled overnight due to lack of staff 🙄. Then another, similar call later on from Marazion when the 2.20 was also cancelled. Anyway, in the end the 2.20 was reinstated so I’m sitting on it now, waiting to go. Am relieved that I won’t be getting home really late - it would have been 9.30 or so. All reservations on the train are null and void so I’ve chosen a nice table seat. Hope nobody gets on and challenges me for it. I have a hefty pasty, bought in Marazion, to sustain me for the 5-hour journey. I did have a huge cream choux bun half the size of my head which was going for £2, but it was too sickly (sweetened cream) so I chucked most of it away.

It’s been a great week and I expect I’ll be back in September to do those last 35 miles or so, round the Lizard. Not counting the non-SWCP bits of walking to the Tube, pub etc, I’ve walked 70 miles this week and ascended 9,500 feet, and it’s taken me 29 hours. Hurrah!

House in Buryan, on the bus route. 
I was struck by the beautiful design.