Saturday 2nd August

We left our very good B&B in Portloe at 8am after a substantial, tasty, breakfast. The book said today was 12.4 miles, strenuous at first then easy. It was straight up steep, long steps, over a stream then continuing up. We went up and down all day, from one cove to a headland to another cove. At one point I was about to ask Julia if the path went down to the sea again, then realised that, if it could go right down to sea level from t he top of a cliff, it would do so!! And it did! Port Holland proved useless for tea but the castle at Caerhayes was impressive, even if the coffee was not! Up to Dodman point with superb views. Had lunch in a little cafe in Gorran Haven. It should have been easy from then on, but Julia and I were already so tired, even the easy stretch seemed hard! We got into Mevagissey at about 4pm