Saturday 20 June 2026

Believe it or not.

Number of walking days: 53
Number of Rest days: 7
Number of hotels/inns/B & Bs: 48
Number of kilometres walked: 1,018.70 kilometres
Number of paces we took: 1.7 million total on 53 walking days, average of 32,000 per day
Number of metres climbed: 32,797 metres
Number of ferries: 15
Number of rivers waded: 2, Gannell and Erme
Number of standard gates: 880
Number of kissing gates: 523
Number of signs: over 4,000
Number of stiles: 436
Number of steps: over 30,000
Most climbing in a day: 1148 metres
Least climbing in a day: 27 metres
Most kms in a day: Woolacombe to Braunton 27.11km
Least kms in a day: St Ives out and back 10.0
Hottest days: Falmouth to Portloe, Portloe to Mevagissey (31°)
Wettest days: to Crackington Haven, St Ives to Tendeen, Dartmouth to Brixham
Windiest days: St Ives to Pendeen, to Lizard, Salcombe to Torcross (1^st half)
Best day of walking: Bigbury-on-Sea (Barbara), Swanage to South Haven (Paul)
Number of taxi transfers: 8
Number of times we got a bus: 5
Number of rooms with a Bath: 11
Number of Hotels with a Lift: 3
Number of 7.30 breakfasts: 7
Best Breakfast coffee: Instow Barton
Continental Breakfast only: Silver Cottage Braunton, The Mandalay Mevagissey
Best breakfast: lots of good ones
Meanest breakfasts: Old School Hotel – no muesli, yoghurt or fruit, The North Inn Pendeen, The Mandalay Mevagissey, The Swan Lodge Abbotsbury
Biggest room: Old Custom House Padstow, Old Schol Hotel Port Isaac, King Arthur’s Arms Tintagel, Hartland Quay Hotel, Hannafore Point Hotel and Spa Looe, Chillington House
Squeakiest floor: Coombe Barton Inn, Hartland Quay Hotel, The Waterfront Inn Westward Ho!
Best Accommodation: The Red Lion Clovelly
Worst hamburger: The Red Lion Clovelly
The hardest walking: four days in the 31° heatwave
No complimentary toiletries: Sea Jade Guest House Bude
Largest bathroom: King Arthur’s Arms
Times we got a room on the ground floor: 8
Creatures seen; ponies, horses, goats, sheep, cows, dogs, cats, snakes, birds, hens, snails, butterflies, bees, flies, alpaca, bulls, squirrels, swans, ducks, pheasants, pigs, humans
Most amazing room: Old School Hotel Port Isaac
Burgers: 7
Nespresso machine in room: Old Custom House Padstow, The Old Success Sennen Cove, The Admiral’s House, Royal Castle
Room two floors up: Old Custom House Padstow, St George’s Hotel Perranporth, Sea View House Portcurno
Most nights in same room: The Western Hotel St Ives (3), Durham House Beer (3)
Home-made cake on arrival: Coombe Barton Instow, Fernleigh B & B Coverack, Jago B & B Portloe
Mistiest day: Lizard to Coverack
Worst internet: Trelawne Hotel Mawgan Smith, Membly Hotel Falmouth
Number of times fridge in the room: 9
No one at reception on arrival: The Mandalay Mevagissey, Durham House Beer, Swan Lodge Abbotsbury
Worst Hotel: The Mandalay Mevagissey
Number of swims: Paul 10, Barbara 6
Hotel with swimming pool: Boscundle Manor, Hannafore Point Hotel and Spa, Devon Court
Most number of beds in our room: Lisawne (1 double, 3 single), Chillington (4 single)
Air conditioner in our room: The Royal Castle Dartmoiuth
Most stairs to room: The Royal Castle Dartmouth 62
Free beer in the room: Old Success, Royal Castle
Free wine: The Admiral’s House Plymouth
Number of glasses of wine: one each at The Admiral’s House because it was complementary, one at the end in Toby Carvery Poole
Number of beers: Paul had one Korev at the Royal Castle because it was complementary
Number of ice creams: one each (Lyme Regis)
Number of cream teas: one (Port Isaac)
Number of Fish and Chips: one (Lyme Regis)
Number of pasties: 6
Number of breakfast eggs: 93 each
Number of Hob Nobs: 105 each
Number of photos: Paul 5037, Barbara 25
Number of blog postings: 72