I had an early breakfast at lee Abbey and set off at 8.05am. I took the Coast Path alonf the Valey of the Rocks, passing the ferral goats in the valley on the way and arrived in Lynmouth at 8.50am. After crossing the bridge on the white bridge I walked along the promenade until i came to the Coast Path again. Initially the path zig-zags uphill but is quite easy, and then runs parallel to the road until the top is reached some way abouve the road and the village at Countisbury. By this time I had climbed to about 1,000 feet above sea level. as the path moved out towards Foreland Point the signing was not clear and I took a wrong turn. When I turned around I found another walker behind me with the same problem. This was Michael and he was walkinmg to Porlock like me so we spent the next six hours walking and talking together which was really nice. He was just two years younger than me. At 10.55am we passed a Gully with its name clearly labelled - Pudleep Gurt! When we got to the point where there are two routes, the lower one had been closed due to repeated landslips in the past six months, so we had to take the higher route. Surprisingly, after the climb to Coutisbury the walk was really easy mainly undulating and following the contours and only very shot steep places. for miles we had signs for Culbone and then we paseed it and found signs in the opposite direction - Culbone was so small we missed it!
At 2.45pm we arrived in Porlock Weir and stopped for refreshment. It was really good having someone to pace me as my lright knee was not very good despite medication and strapping. At 3.10pm we resumed walkiong until we arrived at the Tourist Information Centre at 4.00pm where I stopped to find accomodation for the night. Michael went on to catch a bus. Before we parted he gave me some money for the sponsorship which was nice. I stayed in a 16th century cottage with really low beams. The accomodation was really nice. Originally I had planned to go to Minehead today but when I checked with the Youth hostel they did not have a boking for me. I needed the break as my leg was not up to the whole journey in one day. I was really surprised by the ease of today journey, nothing like I had been led to believe.
Distance walked today - 15 miles
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