Day Seven - Monday

Stats for Monday:

Distance: 362 miles

Elapsed time: 11hrs 40min

Moving average: 54mph

Traveling time: 6hrs 40min

Corners visited today: 1

Total corners visited: 4

Our thanks to Ruth and to Martin for their wonderful hospitality in Worcester; fully rested, we hit the road for the last corner: Land's end.

The weather held for the long slog down the M5 and into the middle of Dartmoor, where we stopped for a quick mug of tea at the Plume of Feathers in Princetown before heading South West towards Penznace.














Crossing Dartmoor

The Plume of Feathers at Princetown

By the time we reached Penzance, we were driving through low cloud and fine rain in fading light - the worst conditions we have experienced on the entire expedition.

We travelled the last five miles to the fourth corner of mainland Britain gingerly picking our way through the fog on slippery roads with misted visors to arrive soggy but elated at the commercial abomination that is Land's End.














We made it!

Paul reveals the secret of our success... OS maps!

Steeling ourselves against the temptation to visit the building-sized recreation of the Tardis or to fill our luggage with souvenir trinkets bearing a striking resemblance to the merchandise that assailed the senses in the John'O Groats "gift" shop, we beat our way around the headland to identify the bottom left hand corner:

The bottom left-hand corner of Britain.

Our journey for the day incomplete. we headed back up the A30 to Looe, where the warmth of a four-oven Aga and Charlie Middleton's excellent home cooking awaited us.

Charlie's Aga - cooking our dinner and drying our clothes at the same time: SO versatile!

Tomorrow, we have but 180miles to cover to return to Southampton, washing machines, clean clothes and chairs that don't fall over if you forget to put your feet down...