Distance: 1o.27 miles Max Altitude: 142 m Min Altitude: 1 m Height Gain: 480 m Height Loss: 458 m I’m not sure what to say about today. I was miserable. I wanted to quit. It didn’t start like that though. Quite the opposite in fact. I had a hearty breakfast and felt cheered to be walking under a blue sky and sunshine. I walked down the promenade, past the castle and towards the harbour. I followed the waymarks and was led onto Pont Trefechan over…
Distance: 1.86 miles Max Altitude: 17 m Min Altitude: 2 m Height Gain: 30 m Height Loss: 29 m I had every intention of pushing on to Llanrhystud today, honestly. But it just didn’t happen. I awoke with a mouth like the Sahara. I was still dehydrated from yesterday. I went for breakfast and drank lots and lots of fluid. I ambled around for a while. I’m not familiar with Aberystwyth at all so thought it a mini duty to get to know it a…
Distance: 5.4 miles Max Altitude: 99 m Min Altitude: 3 m Height Gain: 239 m Height Loss: 264 m A perfect night’s sleep was had at Pen y Graig. It’s not often I get uninterrupted sleep in camp but this was one of those rare occasions. Before I left, I had a ‘put the world to rights’ chat with Wendy and Dylan, the owners. They even donated to my Pancreatic Cancer UK fund too. I couldn’t have met nicer people. But it was then…
Distance: 16.09 miles Max Altitude: 113 m Min Altitude: 2 m Height Gain: 318 m Height Loss: 296 m Behold! There’s a large, yellow, circular object in the sky above our heads! Ok, slight exaggeration, but that was pretty much my euphoria level when I realised that it was going to be a sunny day (as promised in the forecast) rather than yet more rain. After porridge and a coffee in the hostel I set off. The first part was done via road. The Wales…
Distance: 12.42 miles Max Altitude: 33 m Min Altitude: 5 m Height Gain: 101 m Height Loss: 94 m In Welsh, I’d say that I ‘slept like a pig’. I really did, you know. A pig in a bed with clean sheets, warmth and shelter from the elements. I think I must have savoured every minute of sleep too, in spite of my unconsciousness. A hearty breakfast set me up for the day, while I ate it with this as my view. Looks like I…
Distance: 16.40 miles Max Altitude: 78 m Min Altitude: 1 m Height Gain: 200 m Height Loss: 201 m Yesterday’s gales continued overnight. Clark Tent bore the brunt of lashings of rain and howling winds. I, inside, got very little sleep once again. I packed away my soggy kit, wondered whether it would ever get dry again, and then got going. But I had to get a quick look at the Fairbourne Miniature Railway before I left. The Wales Coast Path gets routed away from…
Distance: 10.50 miles Max Altitude: 40 m Min Altitude: 1 m Height Gain: 155 m Height Loss: 156 m Yesterday’s winds turned into today’s gales. Overnight, poor old Clark Tent had been buffeted and blasted by Mother Nature. Packing him up proved no mean feat either. At times I must have looked like a kite boarder rather than a backpacker folding up kit. With the Coastguard warning people about the high winds, I made the sensible decision to not rejoin the Wales Coast Path on…
Distance: 14.1 miles Max Altitude: 67 m Min Altitude: 1 m Height Gain: 227 m Height Loss: 229 m It had been a rainy night and I hadn’t slept very well. I decided to wait for a break in the weather until I packed up and got on my way. Eventually it came but it was late morning when I started walking towards Harlech Castle. Thank you to Eirlys at Tanforhesgan for making me so welcome and for the wonderful facilities in camp. It…
Distance: 11.08 miles Max Altitude: 45 m Min Altitude: 1 m Height Gain: 185 m Height Loss: 175 m I left Porthmadog in the morning and made my way across the cob once more. I had walked back and forth across it several times while filming with ITV Wales. But this time I was leaving for real. There are many places that the Wales Coast Path skims past but possibly none more impressive than Portmeirion. I hadn’t been for years and wasn’t going to…
Distance: 1.49 miles Max Altitude: 40 m Min Altitude: 1 m Height Gain: 30 m Height Loss: 43 m Look at my ridiculously short journey today! My shortest day yet on the Wales Coast Path has a story behind it though. I left Tyddyn Llwyn just outside Porthmadog and walked into town. Thank you once again for my pitch for the night and also the very kind donation. I was meeting ITV Wales News reporter, Rob Shelley in order to film a short item about…
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