JOGLE 7 Day 6 Sat 6 Sep

Sat 6 Sep Start 8.45 Finish 1500 Distance 13 Miles from Bodmin to Padstow.

The weather was overcast with high humidity. We got up early for Breakfast at 7am as this was the timing we were given on arrival only to be told breakfast is at 8 am on weekends!  Breakfast times is a slightly contentious issue with Ian and I. Very few places (apart from Hotels) will do breakfast early. When you’re walking all day its nice to get an early start especially on hot days so that you can walk in the cool of the morning and it also means that you are not having push yourself too hard to get to the next accommodation on time. It was another nice walk along Camel Trail via Wadebridge. It was somewhat boring as walking on straight level paths like railways and canals is mostly uninteresting apart from items of history along the way, but we do make good progress along these routes as there are no styles, walls, gates or hedges getting in the way and slowing us down and there is very navigation too worry about, by slowing us down I mean going from a rapid speed of 3mph to a much more comfortable 2mph. So what is the difference, well 15 miles at 3 mph means it would you 5 hours to walk, 15 miles at 2 mph means it would take you 7 hours 30 minutes to walk, so that is a 2 ½ hour difference, quite a lot really. We arrived in Wadebridge at 1130 and found the Betjamin centre that Ian wanted to visit, but the museum bit was closed, although it did look more like it was a community hub than a museum. We had a very pleasant organic lunch in Manna Café. The Camel trail beckoned again and off we went fighting our way through loads of cyclists and family walkers, clearly a popular stretch of the trial. There was a nice sea breeze blowing and the views of the Padstow estuary were well worth it. With the sea breeze the humidity levels dropped and it turned out to be a nice afternoon’s walk, it feels good to be on the coast line at last. The Simply B&B is very nice but extremely expensive (Padstow is for accommodation) and our room had a lovely view of Padstow Estuary. We ate out at Rojano's that Ian had specially booked for us and was his treat to me, thank you. The meal was followed by a luxury ice cream just around the corner from Rojano’s. We bought tomorrows lunch from a home made pasty shop called Chough Bakery with some nice bread pudding and treacle tart. Padstow Harbour itself is really nice and we had a good look around. Breakfast at Simply B and B was very nice, we had eggs from the chickens in the back garden and bacon and sausages from the local farm.