I slept soundly even though the wind kept up all night and destroyed the frame tent opposite mine.
The kind lady at the campsite charged my phone yesterday evening but the phone is dead this morning so I packed my stuff and walked back to Bude to find a phone shop.
It was still early so I hung around in a coffee shop trying to email recent documents to myself.
Left the phone with the shop to transfer everything from old device to new device and went to pick up some essentials ie Compeed blister plasters.
I wasn't just looking for a chemist, I was hoping for a Compeed wholesaler or factory outlet.
Thought I'd pop in for an early, leisurely pint and maybe read the papers.
I must have missed the sign on the door that said 'locals only'.
It was still morning but the lads and lasses were already on it so that was a swift pint and I left with a line of John Cooper Clarke's in my head 'their common problem is that they're not someone else'.
Bude was pleasant enough but I had lost half a day again and needed to get a move on.
Now carrying two phones and a couple of hundred quid lighter I set off for Widemouth Bay over more eroding cliffs and facing into the wind that just wouldn't let up.
Time was getting on when I reached wild and windy Widemouth Bay but I thought I would push on as it wasn't raining.
As soon as I got halfway up the hill it started raining heavily.
I was soaked in minutes and so thought I might as well carry on but it was tough going with more high cliffs and steep valleys with great names like Dizzard Point and Millook.
Millook had my least favourite terrain of loose, slippery wet scree on a steep down hill.
I was looking forward to getting to Crackington Haven and some refuge in the pub, maybe watching the footy, but it was late when I got there and I still had to find the campsite, so I walked up the hill with the rainwater running like a river coming down the lane to meet me.
They made me feel very welcome at the Coxford Meadows campsite and let me have some shelter until the rain eased off a little so I could get the tent up.
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