Falmouth

6 June 2019

Tom and I were in Falmouth for the South West Coast Path Association AGM. The meetings are lively and informative, plus it’s good to support the group that work tirelessly to maintain this fantastic trail for the enjoyment of so many. The spin off being that we are in a new location to bag some more miles. The hotel is literally on the path with fabulous views of the bay. It was such a warm sunny day when we arrived that we toddled off along the seafront without forethought, or indeed backpacks. One of those glorious days when you just keep going and so we found ourselves in Maenporth some 3 miles later. This was in my planning for one of the days so no problem, walk done and dusted, just a question of finding the bus stop to return to Falmouth. So much of the coast path is sans signal so the bus app. wasn’t helping. Maenporth is just a beach, holiday village and a popular beach cafe which sadly had been devastated by fire the previous week. So we were up the creek without a signal until a helpful lady informed us that the bus stop had recently been taken away due to the service being suspended. That’s not what you want to hear on a hot day with only one way back and a husband with crook knees – but back we went retracing our steps as far as Swanpool where we reunited with the phone signal and called a taxi! It is a pretty walk, easy on the whole but it isn’t good to have a plan break down. The bus route was lauded in the handbook so that needs to be edited for next year’s edition. Some medicinal therapy in the hotel bar provided relief for the aforementioned knees – which lived to walk another day.