Sunday 3rd August

After a full English breakfast we set out from Mevagissey on a beautiful morning. The path soon took us up more steep hills and cove after cove of steps! We counted a few of them, some were flights of 60 and some over 80 steps! Again beautiful views with the addition of patches of woodland which gave welcome shade. Julia and I wished we had taken our usual flask if tea as there was nowhere to get refreshments until a mile before Charlestown and that was a crowded beach kiosk with nowhere to sit and very noisy, so we decided to go on into Charlestown where we had a very fine lunch in the garden of a restaurant overlooking the harbour lock with 2 tall ships ( one was the Pheonix, a 2-masted brig but much smaller than the Stavros and with only 3 square sails to each mast). After that it was a long 2 miles through the dreary industrial area and backstreets of Par to our B&B which itself is spacious and very nice. We met Kevin's family for a meal in the Ship Inn (nothing special, just the usual pub grub and noisy children from the nearby campsite......) then another early night.