Well today can actually, quite frankly, fuck right off. I just want to get that out there from the start. It was an utter shitcunt of a day and if it could go tits up it absolutely did go tits up. Shall we recount the ways in which today can fuck off so that you [...]
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Day 26 – Soar Mill Cove to Beacon Hill
We had a couple of things to actually think about today which was a bit of a shock to the grey spongy thing between my ears. Rather than just meandering and getting there when we get there we had to aim for a ferry that only operated between 10am and 12pm, then again between 2pm [...]
Day 25 – Beesands to Soar Mill Cove
We managed to get the tent packed down with minimal sand incidents which had to be the work of a higher power given that between last night's drizzle and the condensation inside the tent, it was soaking. Maybe I've just blocked out how much sand is stuck to the tent. Maybe we'll get it out [...]
Day 24 – Woodhuish to Beesands
We had some absolutely violent hills to start the day with. Six miles of the fuckers. I don't know why I continue to be all confused and surprised when my legs are about to drop off only three hours into the day. I think it's because every time we complete a particularly brutal section a [...]
Day 23 – Torquay to Woodhuish
It's always a nice, chilled start when we wake up somewhere we're allowed to be and there was no risk of an angry local showing up and tearing strips off us. It was gone 8am when we finally shuffled out of Atlantis, waving goodbye to Steph, our lovely hostess. Today was largely a day of [...]
Day 22 – Rest Day, Torquay
I adore camping, I really do, but I also love waking up in a nice, comfy bed. It's also fucking lovely having a lie in because you don't have to set an alarm on account of the fact you're not meant to have pitched a tent where you pitched it. Being clean is also a [...]
Day 21 – Maidencombe to Torquay
Acceptably slopey is the new flat but you'll still end up crumpled at the bottom of the tent, waking up every hour to claw your way back up your mat. I didn't sleep too well last night, neither of us did, and we were both too lazy to heat up water for a Mug Shot [...]
Day 20 – Exmouth to Maidencombe
We woke up to drizzle. It wasn't meant to be drizzling but here we were. Tarrant said I'd angered the weather gods because I said yesterday's rain felt like they couldn't be arsed. It's not my fault the weather gods are lazy and didn't manage to fit all of yesterday's rain into 24 hours. Mincing [...]
Day 19 – Branscombe Beach to Exmouth
I think my poor diet has finally caught up with me, you could pebble dash a wall with my arse this morning. Walking on a shingle beach is hard enough without having to do so whilst clenching, and I didn't know at the time if the toilets would be open or not. I waddled like [...]
Day 18 – Lyme Regis to Branscombe Beach
We swapped the sounds of the sea for the sounds of the A35 last night but to be fair, once I'm drifting off, as long as the noise is steady my brain can't differentiate and it lulls me to sleep anyway. I slept so fucking well too! It helps being tucked away and not on [...]