In a panic

This morning, I was hoping to get a taxi at around seven am to reach our start point for 7.30. The reason being, to have a leisurely walk  and pick up a hire car in the afternoon from Newquay airport. Today is Randy’s last day, and I’m driving him to London so he can fly home. Whilst in London, I’ll pick up Emily and venture back to Cornwall  for a weekend off and a nice drive around Cornwall to see some of the inland sights. As no cab was available before seven, and they do the school run at 7.30,it was back on the slow bus. Again we decided to walk the other way, so then had to catch a second bus to Perranporth and walk back to Newquay. The 8.40 to Perranporth didn’t arrive,so we caught the 9.10. This meant, we now had not much more than four hours to walk back to Newquay. Doable?yeah, but will be working. I didn’t want to get back to Newquay too late as the car hire company shut at five, and I didn’t want to rely on taxis as they are unreliable for public use doing school runs again in the afternoon. Must be a good lerk  if they knock back 25 quid for a half hour sleep in the morning. Also to do some of the walking from a daily finish point back to the starting point, meant the sun was behind us. All sounds confusing, I know, but it’s difficult to get accommodation in some of these villages in the summer. Well,we finally got away and apart from some of the thick sand crossing sand dunes today, blue skies, a slight breeze, and not much ascents and descents. The walk today also included a short ferry ride,which is always a treat.The ferry runs at high tide, and a bridge is walkable at low tide. We got back in time to catch the bus to the airport and pick up the car. I then drove back to the golf club, picked up the back packs, and drove for an hour to our accommodation at Launceston. After checking in, l drove to  the village pub, had a pint with the locals, dinner of fish and chips. Whilst sitting outside having a quiet one talking, one guy had his beautiful cocker spanial named Gordon, running around chasing whatever he could catch.l then drove  back to the accommodation for a bath and a good night sleep.

Gordon
The bridge under water

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