Day 36 🥾South West Coast Path 🏴, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 📍Supported by ZOLEO @zoleolifeeurope #ChallengeWithZoleo
ℹ️Stats: Thursday 5th September
Weather: rain 🌧️ rain 🌧️ and more rain 🌧️
From: about 2 miles before Seatown
Start time: 8.45am
To: Abbotsbury
End time: 5.30pm
Accommodation: B&B bed 🛌
Terrain: grassy fields, long pebble beach
🥾Km: 26
🥾Miles: 16
🦶Steps: 33,412
Total distance: 566/630. 90% done ✅
💰Costs: £12.15 hot chocolate & breakfast (egg, bacon, hash brown sandwich)
£90 B&B - double bed, en-suite. Warmth ♨️
£9.95 jacket potato with cheese & beans
£3.50 hot chocolate
£7.50 Sticky toffee pudding with hot custard
£0.50 for a pint of blackcurrant & water!! (I think this is the cheapest pint of black current & water I’ve had for a very long time) 🥳
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 5/10
Fatigue: 4/10
Ease of terrain: 4/10
⭐️Highlights: bumped into a listener of the Tough Girl podcast. She was walking the SWCP in sections because she’d been inspired by the amazing women on the podcast.🥳 that gave me a massive boost as I was struggling at that point.
Any time I got into a warm environment 😀 first the café and then the pub - that made me so happy.
🍽️I’ve eaten well today and I have a bed for the night and all my stuff is getting dry. That is a win. 🏆
🏔️Challenges: The weather is awful and it looks like something awful for the next few days as well.
Just constant rain. 🌧️ It’s the cold and the damp which really gets into my bones. I really don’t like it - hence why I prefer to do challenges in hot places! 🤣
I sat in a toilet block to get warm 🤣But they had the new hand dryers which you can’t use to get warm.
💭Thoughts: I hardly got any photos. There was no view, there was nothing to see it was just rain and mist.
Day 37 🥾South West Coast Path 🏴, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 📍Supported by ZOLEO @zoleolifeeurope #ChallengeWithZoleo
ℹ️Stats: Friday 6th September
Weather: rainy and dry spells
From: Abbotsbury
Start time: 8.40am
To: Isle of Portland
End time: 7pm
Accommodation: B&B - bed 🛌
Terrain: muddy, grassy paths, rocky paths. Wet.
🥾Km: 33.9
🥾Miles: 21
🦶Steps: 43,462
Total distance: 590/630. 94% done ✅
💰Costs: £56 B&B
£8.60 - food from Co-op - cheese, tomato’s, chocolate orange & eclairs.
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 8/10
Fatigue: 4/10
Ease of terrain: 4/10
⭐️Highlights: such a better day today. Compared to yesterday. The weather improved. I made great time and Zoe @headrightout came to meet me and will be walking with me till the end. 🥳🥳 it’s given me a real boost! Staying at a cute B&B - they got me gf bread and I’ve made sandwiches for tomorrow.
🏔️Challenges: loads of coastal path closures and diversions. The most I’ve seen so far. It was a bit muddy but nothing I couldn’t handle.
💭Thoughts: Getting ready for the end now! I’m ready to finish and go home 🏡 3 more days!!! Let’s do this!! Final push 💪
Day 38 🥾South West Coast Path 🏴, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 📍Supported by ZOLEO @zoleolifeeurope #ChallengeWithZoleo
ℹ️Stats: Saturday 7th September
Weather: rain all day - none stop 🌧️🌧️🌧️
From: Isle of Portland
Start time: 9am
Walked with: Zoe @headrightout
To: just past lulworth cove
End time: 8.30pm
Accommodation: wild camped ⛺️
Terrain: roads, gravel tracks, forests, muddy tracks.
🥾Km: 32.3
🥾Miles: 20
🦶Steps: 41,385
Total distance: 606/630. 96% done ✅
💰Costs: £3 tea (for Zoe)
£9 chips 🍟 bacon, cabbage & peas
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 7/10
Fatigue: 3/10
Ease of terrain: 4/10
⭐️Highlights: walking with Zoe 🥳Lots of great chats, she walked the SWCP before and knows the area well. The miles flew by. It was a stunning walk to Ludlow Cove - but the weather was just none stop rain. Which was a shame as the views would have been amazing
🏔️Challenges: I was getting very cold on the final walk to Ludlow Cove. Really needed to get somewhere dry and warm - we stopped off at the local pub. Which was perfect. We chilled there before heading off to find camping. Which was challenging! We really made do…. By the side of the path, very muddy and rooty. But we got warm and dry eventually! Setting up late was a challenge as it was raining and I don’t carry a headtorch.
💭Thoughts: everything is so wet and the weather doesn’t look good for tomorrow. We need 30 mins of sunshine to get everything dry again. But only 1 more day of camping. 🏕️
Day 39 🥾South West Coast Path 🏴, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 📍Supported by ZOLEO @zoleolifeeurope #ChallengeWithZoleo
ℹ️Stats: Sunday 8th September
Weather: rainy am 🌧️ dry in the afternoon
From: just past lulworth cove
Start time: 7.40am
To: Peveril Point
End time: 8.10pm
Accommodation: wild camped 🏕️
Terrain: muddy paths, steps, grassy fields.
🥾Km: 29.8
🥾Miles: 18.6
🦶Steps: 38,249
Total distance: 623/630. 99% done ✅
💰Costs: £6.50 hot chocolate & millionaires shortbread.
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 8/10 - always fun to walk and talk with Zoe @headrightout
Fatigue: 5/10 - feeling so tired at the moment ready for some rest.
Ease of terrain: 5/10
⭐️Highlights: the sunshine coming out in the afternoon. Getting everything dry was amazing. 🤩 pure joy. I honestly thought it was going to rain all day And it was going to be such a slog.
🏔️Challenges: the first half of the morning was non-stop rain. It was very miserable. Putting on wet gear, packing up a went tent. Not good. So many muddy steps we were slipping and sliding everywhere. I did take a fall backwards and pop my water bladder. But it was funny. 🤣
💭Thoughts: final day tomorrow. 🥳🥳🥳
Can’t wait. I’ve got my bus ticket booked for 3 pm which means I’ll be home by 11pm the day before my birthday which is what I wanted. Just need to do the final stretch tomorrow and get to the ferry on time.
Day 40 🥾South West Coast Path 🏴, UK National Trail 🇬🇧 📍Supported by ZOLEO @zoleolifeeurope #ChallengeWithZoleo
ℹ️Stats: Monday 9th September
Weather: dry 🙏
From: Peveril Point
Start time: 7.35am
To: Poole Harbour, Dorset
End time: 11.30am
Accommodation: Home 🏡 my bed 🛌
Terrain: concrete, grassy fields, beach
Travel home: car 🚗, coach, car 🚗- home 🏡 bed 🛌 11.30pm
🥾Km: 18.2
🥾Miles: 11.3
🦶Steps: 23,405
Total distance: 630/630. 100% done ✅
💰Costs: £37.50 bus home (8hrs)
Dinner 🍽️ £6 falafel 🧆 meal
Subjective feeling out of 10 on:
Enjoyment: 9/10 - a wonderful end to the adventure 🥳 (not 10 due to 8hrs on the coach!)
Fatigue: 5/10 - ready for rest & recovery
Ease of terrain: 2/10 - 1 climb and then flat and downhill.
⭐️Highlights: Sue @adventurequeenmother came and walked the last few miles with us and treated me to a hot chocolate with all the extras. So grateful to catch up (Sue met me at the end of the South Downs Way & has shared her story on the TGP)
Not sure it was a highlight but don’t know where else to put it….. Walking along the nudist beach was eye opening 👀🍆🤣
Drinking champagne 🍾 with Zoe & Mike at the Haven Hotel to celebrate the end of the SWCP and my birthday 🎊
🏔️Challenges: I was worried about not making it to my bus in time. But it was un founded. I had loads of time 🙌. Which was a relief!
💭Thoughts: such a wonderful few days walking with Zoe @headrightout 🥳🥳🥳
ℹ️I will be doing a total stats post and probably writing a few blog posts as well. ✍️ look out for them!
🎥I have filmed the journey and Vlogs will be coming out next year.
⁉️Do you let me know if you’ve got any questions about the SWCP?
Haven’t read the first part yet? Start from the beginning of my journey here: Day 1-5: Walking the South West Coast Path
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