Finally feeling much better, I was almost reluctant to leave Loggan Lodge: certainly worth the 10/10 we gave on the booking site. From room facilities, to breakfast to the hospitality of the landlady, we highly recommend this place.

Tom collected us and delivered us, with Otto, back to Gwithian. Here we met up with Lizzie and family to walk up to Godrevy Head and then to see the seals at Mutton Cove. Hugh and Lizzie walked with us to Hell’s Mouth, where we stopped for hot chocolate, joined by Ruth and family. Tom elected to join us for the rest of the walk. We enjoyed his company but I think Grampy might have been a little bit jealous that Otto decided he wanted to ‘walk with Daddy’!

We were lucky with the weather – windy but bright and mainly sunny, and once again the views were spectacular!

We stopped for a pub lunch in Portreath, then continued to Porthtowan, where our accommodation was a studio apartment. Ruth soon appeared with our bags and we sadly said a final goodbye to to Ruth, Tom, Bertie, Otto and Ophelia, who had a long drive home to Southampton.

A Backward Glance

After a good rest at Loggans we were packed into Tom’s car, where Otto was waiting in the back seat, then returned to the ‘Jam Pot’ at the beach where we ended yesterday’s walk. It was a great morning and we could see the sun was going to join us as we made our way to see the seals. Along the way, Paul, Lizzie, Hugh and Delia joined us for a short time, then Paul and Delia returned to their car, to catch up with us again at Hells Mouth Cafe. The seals didn’t appear to be as excited to see us as we were them and even Otto thought they looked a little ‘sluggish’. At the cafe we bid a final farewell to Paul, Liz and attachments then set off again for Porthtowan with Otto’s Dad, Tom, with us. Now demoted to ‘also ran status’, I took opportunity to practice dialogue again with Carol as the spectacular coastal scenery passed by us. But Carol does not know ‘What What’ language or that we’re all over thirteen billion years old, the importance of everything ending with the sound ‘ee’, that everyone’s weird, that brains aren’t important because some creatures (and some people) get by without ever having to use one, Saints are probably going to get demoted and lead the way to the bottom of the league tables, that one is the only whole number, that you cannot have less than nothing so negative numbers do not exist, that Messy is the best footballer in the world and everyone used to think Grampy was Messy when he was a boy, that Grandma is kind and looks after poor people. I’m so missing that boy’s companionship already!