Lies, Damn Lies and Statstics

Number of walking days: 30
Number of rest days: 5 (Padstow, St Ives, Penzance, Falmouth, Charlestown)
Number of kilometres walked: over 500 (not including rest days)
Number of steps taken: 666,879
Number of signposts: 1236
Number of bridges crossed: 151
Number of ferries: 8
Number of gates opened and closed: 327
Number of stiles climbed: 461
Number of steps climbed: 13,395
Number of swims: 1
Number of metres climbed: two Mt Everests
Best breakfast: Red Fox Barn
Best dinner: Roast Loin of Pork, Coombe Barton Inn, Crackington Haven
Smallest breakfast: Port Gaverne Hotel
Number of poached eggs eaten: 58 each
Most expensive packed lunch: Little Fox, £8
Prettiest town: Clovelly, Port Isaac, Polpero, so many others
Ugliest town: Portreath
Longest day: Porthleven to The Lizard, 27 km
Shortest day: Mawnan Smith to Falmouth, 6 km
Place I’d like most to go back to: Polpero
Place I will never go back to: Lands End
Number of beds slept in: 30
Narrowest bed slept in: Mevagissey Bay Hotel
Most comfortable bed: the one at the end of a tiring day
Least comfortable bed: the ones on rest days
Number of times we got lost: 2
Number of places with no wifi: 1
Number of days until we got sick of Full English Breakfast: 3
Number of Cornish Pasties eaten: 4, went off them quickly – too much salt and pepper
Number of Cornish Cream Teas: 3, scones too crumbly, what a mess to eat
Number of glasses of wine/beer/cider: 5 (a very dry walk!)
Number of desserts eaten: 1 (and it was shared!)
Number of times food stolen by a sea gull: 1
Number of things we lost: sun glasses
Number of things we left behind in hotel rooms: 0 – not bad for us
The most luxurious accom: Red Fox Barn, Little Fox Hotel
The squeakiest floors: Coombe Barton Inn Crackington Haven
Number of kisses Paul got at a kissing gate: 0 (cows and sheep don’t count)
Number of kisses Barbara got at a kissing gate: lost count
Number of boat harbours we passed through: 49
Number of nettle stings: how many grains of sand on a beach?
Number of Iron Age Hill Forts we crossed: 37
Number of Iron Age Hill Forts we actually recognised: 2
Number of photographs taken by Paul: 2988
Number of photographs taken by Barbara: 101

 

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