That perhaps, plus visits to the post-office, and butcher (to buy a massive cornish pasty for lunch), plus Lidia's upset stomach, led to our getting a somewhat slow start... and a slow continuation as well. According to the guidebook, it should take about 5.5 hours from Porlock Weir to Lynton... it took us about 6.5 hours with another hour from Porlock to Porlock Weir and perhaps an hour of breaks and stops along the way. And then we had to climb up the 150m from Lynmouth to Lynton because the cliff-railway closed at 6PM and we only got there at 6:30.
So it was a long day, and a tiring one too since we had an at times gusty, at times pretty powerful headwind all day. Lidia doesn't like wind at the best of times, and feeling somewhat under the weather anyway, she finally threw in the towel at Countisbury, about 45 mins before the end (going into the pub there to order a taxi and have a beer while waiting for it :-).
Just prior to that we had come down to the Foreland Point Lighthouse, only to discover that the path back to the Coast Path was steep, exposed, next to a pretty steep cliff, across and under scree, and all told pretty "interesting". Ingrid's comment upon seeing the path was, roughly translated, "We aren't going up there, are we?"... but of course we were. She concentrated on Christine's feet (she has vertigo) and did fine.
We were all pretty tired after the hike. Watching us going up after dinner you would have thought you were looking at a bunch of octogenarians! But we all recovered well enough by this morning.
