Day 12: Tues.13th Sept. Pendeen to Lamorna via Land's End Tot. Miles=267

Land's End

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The news from Land's End will bring joy into the hearts and minds of Bloggers everywhere. The gates have been overwhelmed, the populace have legged it and the citadel has fallen into the hands of the Guthries who had deployed their classical pincer movement when they advanced 10 miles from Pendeen earlier this morning.

Sodden and wind-blasted Pendeen eventually gave way to that section of the Coast Path which leads through the tin mines to Cape Cornwall and beyond to Land's End. The nature of the path was far more user friendly than yesterday's farce and rapid progress was assured despite the objections steaming  from my red hot achilles. Not only was Sennen reached in record time but Land's End, too, welcomed us with open arms. Lamorna was a mere spit away and soon Pat and I were re-united in the local pub, "The Wink" (Cornish for "Smugglers' Speakeasy").

Apart from the conquest of Land's End, the major item of interest was the remarkable change in the weather. Hurricane Katia (?) new better than to meddle with Cornwall's pirates and took evasive action by diverting just that little bit further north and leaving the Peninsula basking in the most Mediterranean of conditions. Come back, Cornwall, all is forgiven! As for the contrary behaviour of my achilles, another visit to the fizzio magician soon banged that to rights so we can now look forward with confidence to the challenges of the Lizard. And so to bed.

ps from Pat

Snowie asked what I'm doing with myself. Well I'm actually quite enjoying it although very busy dropping off (Jack that is, as well as falling asleep), picking up, sorting accommodation, usually trying to meet Jack during the day, (Thats a bit hit and miss due to scarcity of mobile phone signals). I'm also walking bits of the coastal path each day. Wednesday I've booked myself a seat at the open air Minnack theatre at Porthcurno for the matinee performance so lets hope it stays dry.

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