Heading away from the legend of King Arthur and the tacky tourist stuff that him. It cost £20 to enter and really most of is in ruins except for the new bridge which is spectacular and the ‘Arthurian sculpture that we glimpsed from afar. We were lucky to get so close to the bridge and that was only because we were early and the ticket booth had not opened. We just went in until they came then obviously left.
There was a small grass fire right on the path which the fire fighters were busy making safe and putting out. We thought it quite insignificant but you can see smoke in some of the photos and the smoke was clearly visible for miles (literally) and even the day after it was still visible on the horizon. It made the nighttime news and we heard several people remark on it.
Surprise, surprise the day was full of ups and downs. The hills are brutal and slow progress considerably. If we do 2 miles an hour we think thats good. The coastline scenery is spectacular though, although we have seen 120 miles of it!
celebrity is Doc Martin. As expected he and the show are everywhere in Port Isaac. Its a pretty little village and it does still work as a village (we listened to some Cornish fishermen trying to understand 2 consecutive words, we failed) but it is dominated by the spectre of the TV show.
Today we walked to Rick Steins town, Padstow. Locals regard him as a bit of a ring in and the fact he own half the town has not endeared himself to some. The town is very pretty, very old and very Cornish and Im looking forward to having a walk around. We have an extra day here so we can go to Rick Steins fancy restaurant (he also has a cafe, fish and chip shop, a fish caravan and a pastry outlet that I know of). The walk here was 19 km but without the monster hills we made really good time and we both found the walk relatively easy. As the tide was out we were able to Beach walk several sections and that too cut a little distance and of course its flat. The last bit necessitates taking a ferry
across the Camel River (who names a river, the Camel?). At £3 for 3 minutes Im in the wrong business.
Some photos remain stubbornly inverted so just turn your device 180 degrees because I cant fix them. There are quite a few shots (35) because I did not blog yesterday. Thanks to the one reader who mentioned that! Im going to have to tag Andrew again so his Facebook friends read along and start to wonder whats going on.
