day 34: bailing

it turns out i'm not very good at bailing. i'm very good at almost bailing. but i always seem to loose my nerve and carry on.

take today. it was raining. a lot:

it was also forcast to rain. a lot. all day. i therefore decided that, considering that i was ahead of schedule and could easily make up for a day's rest, i would sit out the rain and actually take a day's rest. i am here to enjoy myself after all. so i found a nice cafe (the good food cafe in lyme regis) with wifi and plug sockets and hot chocolate and cream teas and pasties with salads with flowers in:

and i waited.

and then all of a sudden it was brightening up. and the met office app agreed that it was brightening up for the whole afternoon. so i set off, meeting zoe on the path on the way.

it turned out that the met office app lied to me. when we hit charmouth it was most definitely raining again.

zoe was headed off to her cousin's house for a bed, while i found myself waiting out the rain again. as i did, arthur, mike and steve (another coaster who started half way round) turned up.

with it brightening up a little again, we set off for golden cap, with portland bill in the horizon:

(it's that faint wedge shape)

i expected golden cap, being the highest point on the south coast, to feel pretty big. but to be honest, we did almost as much ascent on some of the hills yesterday, so it wasn't too bad. i even had enough energy for the classic trig point shot:

only a few miles further on and we're camped up, looking like a mini camp site in front of a pub where i paid £3.30 for a soda water and lime. £3.30! still, at least we didn't have to to far to camp.

jin x

up to 557 miles today after my shortest day so far: 10 miles. only 73 left now.