Community Trips
We left Bishop’s
Stortford at 06.30 arriving at Minehead at 10.30 where we could just about see Wales across
the sea. We stopped to look at map to try to see where the statue marking the start of the coast path
waslocated, not realising it could be seen on the other side of the road
about 30 yards on from us. We set off following the large sign on the pavement heading away
from sea between some...
Weather: Sunny and windy, becoming drizzly last
1-2 miles, warm
We drove to
Lynmouth leaving the our accomodation in Ilfracombe just after 9am, we had 1½ hours to kill waiting for
the first bus to Porlock so went through the town where Dunc bought a snake
walking stick to take back for Zoe and we later had a coffee. We caught the bus to Porlock at
11.40am and got off at Porlock garage at 12.10. Mark bought some...
Weather: SunnyWe set out from our campsite shortly before 9am,
arriving at Combe Martin at about 9.20. We waited for the 300 bus and got on it
at about 9.45. We went first to Lynton and waited in the car park for a few
minutes. At this point an OAP with a bus pass appeared to pick an argument with
the driver that her free ticket was a single rather than a return.
We got to
Lynmouth at...
Countisbury and the Blue Ball Inn where we are staying are just outside the towns of Lynton and Lynmouth so we park in the riverside car park and walk down to explore the sights.Lynmouth has one of the few safe harbours on the North coast of the Bristol Channel. Many of the houses and shops are built on the steep sides of the valley and are only accessible by footpaths and the...
Trip Description (Trip 1)My first expedition on the South West Coast Path. A 3 day trip, starting at the official start at Minehead, and walking a total of 37.5 miles to Ilfracombe over 3 days. I was lucky enough to get a lift to Minehead (difficult to get to by any other means), and at the end got a bus from Ilfracombe to Barnstaple and the train back from there. This was...
