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Tuesday 12 August 2008

Saturday 2 August 2008

Hurray, I finished the swcp today at 12.45pm. Adam met me with some tinnies and chocolate off the ferry. Photos to be posted shortly (having some technical difficulties at the mo). Back in London now and still can't believe I have actually done it, the whole 640 miles (well i did get lost a few times! The path is really only 630 miles.)

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Friday 1 August 2008

Durdle Door

2 days to go!

Lulworth Cove. Left the hostel at around 9am.

Was merrily following the yellow coast path markers through the range when I hit a road. Ended up miles inland as I didn't want to walk back, but I did get this view point :)

Thursday afternoon

Noon: Had lunch and half of Tanglefoot at Lulworth Cove. Arrived at hostel at 5p.m.

The 95 miles of coast from Orcombe Point in Devon to Old Harry Rocks in Dorset is a world heritage site as it reveals 185 million years of the Earth's geological history in the cliffs.

Thursday 31 July 2008

31/07/08 a.m.

9 a.m. Just setting off for the day. I bivi-ed next to the entrance of an air raid shelter that now has huge trees growing on it.

UPDATE: They are not air raid shelters, but radar stations built between 1935 and 1941 and called Chain Home, they provided an effective early warning system, and were also used during the cold war.

30/07/08 p.m.

6 p.m. Just dipping my feet in the sea on the shingle beach just before Osmington Mills. I lived in Ringstead Bay which is the next one along when I was 16, so this is home turf. I have had a lovely day in the company of a nurse, Saskia, who I met at the hostel last night. She works in Redhill near where I used to live.

Next year Saskia is going to cycle around Jordan for charity :)

I was worried about this young calf I saw alone in a field mooing to his mum who was a couple of fields away mooing back. I think the farmer may have moved the herd without realising she had calved as none of the others had calves. They either belong to East Farm or East Farm Dairy.

7.30 p.m. Having dinner and a pint of badger in the Smuggler's 13th century inn in Osmington Mills.

8.30 p.m. Bivi-ing in an old lookout shelter.

Wednesday 30 July 2008

Portland Bill

Climbed up all 153 steps to the top of Portland Bill lighthouse.

29th July 2008

Alarm went off at 6am, but only started walking just gone 7.

Funny sign that read "Walker information: danger - fast horses!" There was a sand gallop track for race horses next to the footpath.

9.28am got drenched in a massive downpour. Had to wring out my socks :(

2pm - arrived at Weymouth and went for lunch.