A bright sunny day and there is a choice between anti-fouling, varnishing, weeding, standing stones and exercise. With the threat of a holiday on bicycles in a few months, we decide that the time has come to see if the winter muscles can be persuaded to perform. So the Bissoe trail it is, only this time we start by going downhill to Point and Penpol, thus formally completing the full crossing of the peninsular albeit a few months (years?) after we did the rest.
It had been raining and so we were soon covered in brown measles, especially as one of us forgot that he is no longer a 15 year old boy and yet behaved as though he was whenever confrotned by a puddle or hillock. The trail has lost none of its charm and the Poldice valley remains one of the charms of the county: if only it was just a teeny bit flatter. But the return from the Fox and Hounds to Bissoe is worth all the 'uppy' effort.14.88 miles and nearly 500 calories burned off. That is surely worth a pint or two, even if the boat still needs varnishing and anti-fouling.
