Saturday, July 21, 2018

Pendoggett Day 11 (Tuesday) Trail & Rail

We visited the Bodmin and Wenford Steam Railway.
4612 is our engine for the day
Jo enjoying the train ride
The first journey took us to the station on the Camel Trail where we had turned back the other day, so we walked onward to the tearooms and had lunch, then onward further and turning back to the station in time for the 14:10 departure. We made 3.76 miles on that round trip.  We had tried to stop at the tearooms the other day, but there was no parking space, it is really only accessible from the trail.

Back on the train and back to Bodmin General (it's a station, not a hospital), then off to Bodmin Parkway (which is a main line station).  At times the views from the train are stunning and there is no other way to see them. We met George, a work experience student who was learning to 'cash up' and do arithmetic in his head, after a day serving in the buffet car.
I love the smell of steam trains, and am instantly transported back to Shoeburyness station as a five-year-old. Steam trains look more like 'real engineering' than their modern electric counterparts.

We then drove to Halwyn (where Cornwall County council have a FREE car park, the only one we've seen so far) and walked into Padstow to complete the other end of the trail.  Not being prepared to queue for Rick Stein fish and chips, we walked on a little and ate on the quay side - a fairly average meal.

Just a note about AI and machine learning. My glasses lost a lens today, the weakest eye has just a hole now.  My brain has already adapted, so I can sit and type without apparently any problem.  When will machine learning be that good?

Walking Minutes: 205 Brisk: 20 (based on Google Fit data, but the walking times look correct)
Google Fit Steps: 7783  (after morning walk only 13 steps were recorded)
Recorded Walks: 3.76 (20:07 mins/mile) & 4.32 (23:24 mins/mile)

Miles driven so far: 788.2

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