For our self-guided walks in Spain and Ireland we used an Irish company, CaminoWays (also called IrelandWays for travel in Ireland), to organise our accommodation and transfer our bags each day. They were very good and all the arrangements on those walks went without a hitch.

However CaminoWays don’t do any walks in England so this year we are using a Scottish company, Macs Adventure. They do guided and self-guided walks and hikes all around the world.

Macs Adventure have 9 walks on the South West Coast Path and we have stitched together 5 of them and tweaked them a bit to suit the distances we want to walk and the locations where we want to stop. So they have booked all our accommodation on the Path and will transfer our bags each day.

They have sent us a small mountain of background reading, books, maps, direction instructions, and they also have an app to download for our tablet and phone.

We’ll have to try very hard to get lost this year.

Late breaking news, just in:

All the maps, books, instructions, apps, etc from Macs Adventure are now redundant.

Our very good friends Ann and Jerry have given us ‘A most useful map for hiking and walking’. This is the ideal map for breaking down a long walk into a leisurely series of comfortable strolls from Public House to Tea Room, to Tea Room, to Public House.

No worries, we will never go thirsty or hungry or ever get lost.

Thank you Ann and Jerry.