Zennor

One of the most challenging walks either of us has ever done – over 500m altitude gain over 11 and a bit kms (which means almost the same descent!) would be difficult on any terrain but the path today was brutal! About half the path required careful placement of each footstep, so many of the kms took over 25 minutes!

Anyway, St Ives was a nice stop and a lovely village although busy during the day with daytrippers. That said, it was nice to get going again and the first hour or so was great walking on good paths.

After that though, the going was really tough. I was a bit tongue in cheek with my comments about the weather forecast but today showed 0% chance of rain until after 2pm – needless to say it rained incessantly all walk. Very lightly at first but when combined with wind gusts over 30 knots, perhaps more on the headlands, it didn’t make for great walking.

We’re taking a day off the path tomorrow to do a walk around some ancient monoliths and old tin mines which should be nice!