We got up at 7.30, and ate ‘unlimited’ breakfast cerial and toast at Penzance Youth Hostel. After getting ready, we set off at 9.30 and had a couple of snack breaks before lunch at Tesco’s. The terrain is much hillier than I expected – I thought that Cornwall was on the coast, the coast being at sea level, the sea being flat an’ all, therefore Cornwall should be flat?

After lunch we continued towards Golant, stopping off at a Social club in Tywardeath to watch the England vs Equador (1:0) match – not a bad game. England having a few good 5 minutes, and their boring patches too.

Finding Golant youth hostel was harder than we expected because the instuructions that we had must have been copied down wrong, and so a 0.7 mile distance should have read 1.7 miles. We took the ’scenic’ route and arrived there a bit tired. We attempted to make some food, but a portion that said on the packet ‘Serves 2′ should have really said ‘Serves 1/2′ so after eating what can only be described as an appitiser, we went into the hostel restraunt and ate a proper cornish pasty. The chef got my order wrong, so after eating half the slighly wrong meal, he gave me another plate of what would have been correct – so I got 2 plates of food. Now I am not one to complain about free food.

We were pretty tired, so after washing our clothes and finalising the route for tomorrow we headed to bed.

Distance: 9.0 miles [20 mph average] (Cumulative: 9 miles) 

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