Veryan Day 3 - Ever Increasing Circles

As forecast, the day started wet and relatively cold.  After breakfast, I completed yesterday's blog, and then started reading a book about Veryan.  The weather seemed to clear, and we rushed to get ready and went out.  Brody was relieved, but by the time he had finished it was raining again, so we returned to the cottage - total distance 0.09 km.
We had lunch relatively early, Jo cooked the Chicken Tikka she bought the other day, and with rice and stir-fry we were fuelled and ready for the afternoon walk.  With the weather improving, we left about 13:20 to complete walk 9 in the booklet of walks.  This one starts at Veryan, and goes through Trewartha and Portloe and then back.  After a short break at the post office to write and send post cards, we returned to the route.

A theme of our walks has been the overly high stiles  we have had to get across.  Here is one that Jo started to cross, before we realised that the gate opened!  There were some very high ones, and some of them we did not need to cross.  The guided walk occasionally mixed it's left and right, so we went round in a couple of big circles.  That means the directions cannot be trusted, so at one point we decided to go down to the coast, except we never got further than the coastal path, and in making that decision we completely missed Portloe.  We then took a very long walk along the coastal path towards Carne Beach, turning away from the main costal path we ended up a little closer to home, which avoided the steep hill up from the beach.  All the time the weather was improving, and my hat was still in the cottage.  I could feel my head getting burnt.

Here is the route as recorded by Runtastic.

 After a short rest and a long drink, we decided to go to The Ship Inn in Portloe.  The food is very good, we both chose the plaice.  I chose it because it was the healthiest option, until I saw just how much butter it had been cooked in. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it.  We drove onwards through Portloe on our way home and soon passed Broom Parc, the house where "The Camomile Lawn" was set.  It is also the point at which we deviated from our route and ended up on a 10km hike.

Sitting here blogging, I thought I would back up the pictures on Jo's phone.  On my 2 android devices, this has been simplicity itself.  Plug it in, wait while the driver installs, look at the contents of the phone in explorer.  So you might expect that a Windows laptop could talk to a Windows phone easily.  You'd be wrong.  The driver install failed.  I have to install an 'app for desktop'.  When installed, it first tries to sync all the photos on the Laptop to the phone.  I stopped it, that would have been a disaster.  I have now copied Jo's pictures to the Laptop, for safer keeping.