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Days Out and Walking Holidays in Cornwall
The Lizard Peninsula Coast Path Walk Sept 2012
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- Creato Sabato, 29 Settembre 2012 23:05
How can you not be in awe of the south west coast path? In solidarity with the week before we were owed some more good weather and especially after the Lizard walking week in July which turned out to be the muddiest and wettest on record. And we were so rewarded for our nine guests who came from near and far for a walking week of utter pleasure. Coast path walking at its absolute best.
When two came walking in September
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- Creato Sabato, 15 Settembre 2012 22:17
I've gotta say it. we are owed, big time, some good weather for the rest of September. This week it was delivered. No rain to speak of and for me it is visibility that contributes to making a walk a good walk. Autumn flowers like the squill below on the Lizard invites thoughts of ordering logs and gathering kindling. but let's not get tooo hasty. Whilst the autumnal clouds scud by in a hurry so it seems there is still some good walking to be done.
Two guides two guests
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- Creato Venerdì, 24 Agosto 2012 09:09
Both Martin from Adventureline and I had one guest each this week so what better than to get together and give our guests the benefit of two enthusiasts and guides. A case of 2 for the price of 1. It also gave us a chance to do some linear walks by leaving one car at the end of the walk and driving to the beginning. Whilst not our regular practice and in keeping with our green ethic it was a case of managing to do walks we hadn't done for years and working out how these walks could be done as a circular in the future.
Dartmoor and wild camping on a wet June
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- Creato Domenica, 17 Giugno 2012 08:41
We are arranging a walking week on Dartmoor for all and sundry next year. June 2013. For those who don't know (and why don't you?) Dartmoor is a National Park across the Cornwall border in Devon and is a spectacular mainly granite moorland with 50% of its landscape above 300 metres. It has wonderful ancient woodlands, archaeological remains from the Bronze Age, moss covered boulders in river valleys and high tors amidst beautifully bleak high moorland where Dartmoor ponies run wild. And so much more.
It is really just too immense to capture in words and photos and much too much for this mortal's heart and imagination. Interested? Read on and get in touch and I will send a brochure.
Another walking week in July in Cornwall.
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- Creato Lunedì, 20 Agosto 2012 07:15
This is a new palette of colours that caught my eye. Cornwall continually produces a visual feast throughout the year in different habitats and at the whim of the non conforming weather events. Whilst many may moan about the lack of blue skies I for one revel in the endless creativitiy of the clouds and the hues produced in the flora, bursting into life and battling with the interplay of the excess of sun and rain.
Guided walking break in Cornwall: the cult of the fruitcake festival
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- Creato Lunedì, 28 Maggio 2012 23:57
If you think of a passion, something that you really like, chances are that in America there will be a festival dedicated to it. The obvious ones are music, cultural, rodeo and sports festivals. Oh yes... and food. Now we have our own Oyster festival here in Falmouth and in the good ol' US of A they do have their pumpkin, seafood and more oddly a Banana festival in Wilmington Ohio. But my guests this week were not just participants but the organisers of the famous, well famous in Inyo county, California, Fruitcake festival....Don't ask, just Google, it will be easier.
A walking week in Cornwall in July
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- Creato Sabato, 14 Luglio 2012 21:31
Following the worst week of rain and mud in Cornwall for a long while it was with trepidation that we awaited what the heavens would offer. Well we were lucky with most of the days whilst one day we went to the fabulous Heartlands in Pool to see the mining heritage come alive. The site pushes the point that Cornwall whilst it wasn't the centre of the Industrial Revolution it certainly dominated the copper and tin output of the world for a long time. It gave the world "the Hard Rock men" the diaspora spread to all corners of the world with their nous about mining.
Budock Vean hotel walking break 2012
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- Creato Lunedì, 07 Maggio 2012 08:33
Whilst we were entertained by the heavens opening on the first day the sun shone and mud dried out a smidgen. Visibility stretched to the undulating horizons and the lightly travelled, almost forgotten local footpaths transfixed us with their array of flowers, spring growth and tree cover. We traversed sunken lanes and footpaths that linked church to community and estate to workers cottages in former times. The winding roads followed the contours of the landscape in no hurry to get their travellers anywhere in particular at any great speed as if in deference to the views one would miss if travelling in haste.
Mud mud glorious.....
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- Creato Domenica, 08 Luglio 2012 08:09
So what do you want to know that this picture can't tell you? What can one say about this weather? The Thesaurus has many words for Unprecedented:- abnormal, yup; exceptional, right; freakish, definately; unheard of, unparallelled yes the list goes on which are factually correct descriptions of the Cornwall summer, and elsewhere I hear you cry- well that's impossible actually over fibre optics but you get my gist.
Port Isaac and Port Quin walk
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- Creato Sabato, 14 Aprile 2012 10:47
Yes there are loads of captions one could write. I won't succumb. The photo says it all. This was on the path that goes inland from Port Isaac to Port Quin with the folly of Doyden Castle in the background which was built by a local wealthy but infamous man, Samuel Symons as a pleasure house where he could enjoy life outside his tidy marriage with gambling and drinking. It can now be hired as a weekly residence from NT.
Tilleys are not just for xmas. They're for life
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- Creato Lunedì, 18 Giugno 2012 12:59
Anthropomorphising is dangerous for professional naturalists but I swear this hat is smiling. And so it should be, it is new, it is on Dartmoor and usually on my head! My new Tilley is hanging around on a hawthorn tree on Dartmoor. Alas my old Tilley has served me well but has gone to the great hat stand in the sky to serve Telly Savalas, Yul Brynner and that little bloke whom Benny Hill used to pat very hard.
walking group may 5th-12th 2012
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- Creato Sabato, 12 Maggio 2012 08:23
This year has already brought another mixture of weather. Summer in March, rainstorms in June. We play a good game when it comes to predicting the days weather and we again managed to get the best weather in the county and walked accordingly. This group care of Adventureline were from all over the world so we had to show the county at its best... and we didn't disappoint.
Altri articoli...
- Local walks in Cornwall around Mawnan and Constantine
- Porthcothan, Treyarnon, Constantine, Mother Iveys and Harlyn Bays
- Countryfile magazine the SWCP team and walkitcornwall
- Walking on the folds of Crackington Haven
- Lamorna and Mousehole January walk
- FRAWF walk
- Weather predicting. Art or luck?
- Autumns approach: An awareness of change
- So many butterflies in Cornwall
- Lizard Peninsula walking holiday in Cornwall 2011
- Clouds on an invisible track
- Whose "sori" now?