Date: 20180617
Time: 9:30 – 15:45
Distance: 18.5 km
Stay: Lerryn Hotel, Falmouth
Walk
It rains, a drizzle, when I leave today. As a precaution, I put on my raincoat because they predicted more rain.
All in all I have a great walk today, despite the weather. It is mainly a relaxed stretch to Falmouth.
I walk through some meadows and I wonder why the cows always have to shit exactly on the ‘path’. You always see a kind of path running through a meadow. If you look at the number of cow pies over the entire meadow and you compare this with the number on the path, then I think that there are more cow pies on the path than is statistically justified.
Perhaps a subject that someone can study…
Then I see the plant with the large leaves again. This time there are more of them, but the leaves are not that big, but it is the same plant (I think). I still do not know what it is…
At Maenporth beach I am almost halfway and I take a break. A cup of coffee under the roof of the beach cafe. It is not cold, just wet. When I take off my coat, I wonder which side is wetter, the outside or the inside.
After a little chat with a few locals (a couple of elderly ladies with their dogs), it goes on again. What I don’t like is that I notice that I have wet feet. My shoes and the bottom of my pants are soaking wet, not so much from the rain, but from the low vegetation that is very wet. The water comes through my socks in my shoes.
And then suddenly I am in Falmouth. In fact, I am (almost) at my hotel. Walked less than 12 kilometers and finished? That is of course not possible. I am too early at my hotel, it is only 12:30. I’ll check, but I can not go to my room until 14:00. My luggage is also not there yet. So into the village, to get some extra mileage and go to a pub to celebrate Father’s Day! I do that in The Grapes, here they have a number of beers I have not had yet.
Then I walk through Falmouth for a bit, some site seeing because it is still early and to increase the number of kilometers today.
When I arrive at the hotel to check in, a package is waiting for me with the message ‘happy fathers day’. When in my room it appears to be a gift from the kids and Ada, a heavy engraved key ring with on one side “SWCP 16 mei – 16 juli 2018” and on the other side “Down by the seaside”. I am very happy that they have thought of me!
Weather
When I left this morning, it was raining. A drizzle that lasted the whole walk and occasionally turned into real drops. There was also a strong breeze that made it feel cold, despite the fact that the temperature was actually quite ok.
Lyric of the day
Well, I actually wanted to choose something from Saxon today because I started at Saxon Cove this morning. But that was before I received my Father’s Day gift from Ada and the kids. Given that gift today it is obviously Down By The Seaside by Led Zeppelin:
Down by the seaside. See the boats go sailin’
Can the people hear, What the little fish are sayin’
Oh, oh, the people turned away. Oh, the people turned away
Down in the city streets, see all the folk go racin’, racin’
No time left, to pass the time of day
The people turned away. The people turned away
So far away, so far away
See how they run, see how they run, see how they run, see how they run.
Do you still do the twist
Do you find you remember things that well
I wanna tell you… Some go twistin’ every day
though sometimes it’s awful hard to tell
Out in the country, hear the people singin’
Singin’ ’bout their progress, knowin’ where they’re goin’
Oh, oh, oh, oh, the people turned away
Yes, the people turned away
Sing loud for the sunshine, pray hard for the rain
And show your love for Lady Nature. And she will come back again
The people turned away
The people turned away
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