It’s a back-to-back walking week, in fact the third week in a row and we are still awaiting a heavy downpour. Oh, I spoke too soon. Monday morning it fell down as we headed to Portreath. But ten minutes of delaying tactics in the van, chatting about the symbols of Cornwall and the reintroduction of the Chough and the clouds cleared, the rain stopped and off we went on our first of five days of walking. Not a drop of…

This was a week of the Moody Sea! Water can take on an assortment of moods, colours and shapes. The Inuit have at least 50 words for snow. I think we should attempt the same for how water falls from the sky in the UK and how it behaves around the coast. This was the last Adventureline walkitcornwall joint production of the year. Five days, six people, five from the USA, one from the UK and some great walks and…

We were four in all; Sabrina and Cliff from Calgary, Canada and David from (now) Dartmouth, England. Literary glitterati have imbibed on the Cornish sea, air and landscape for centuries and we tried to relive the origins of the spark of their genius. A literary theme ran through the week in the places we visited. Tintagel (King Arthur and Thomas Hardy), Frenchmans Creek (DuMaurier via Q) and the Helford, The Minack Theatre and the Lost Lands of Lyonesse, Kynance Cove (Wordsworth, J C Trewin).…