Wednesday 13th May 2015 – 19/52 – Pleinmont to Pembroke Bay

I am no walker. Tennis player, yes; table tennis player, yes; avid coffee drinker, yes. But walker, no! So it was with some trepidation that I set off on the 11 + mile section of coast from Pleinmont to Pembroke Bay, inspired/encouraged/cajoled by Eric Graham, the Autism365 walker, to join him, and as it turned out, also Clive and Sue. Conditions were wonderful – warm, dry and sunny.

It was a somewhat slow beginning as the Guernsey Press pursued us soon after the start, and we found ourselves going backwards for the sake of walking towards the camera. The photo was in the Press the very next day.

We passed by the usual beautiful landscape: sparkling seas, glistening granite rocks, birds calling (particularly the plaintive, striking cries of the oyster catchers), swallows swooping and an egret stalking. Steadily we strode on – not too fast, thankfully, but certainly not plodding – waiting for my coffee fix as we passed kiosk after kiosk (I don’t like coffee “on the go”), until finally settling at Vistas at Vazon for a very welcome drink.

Soon we were on the road again, with a slight coolness in the air one minute, a pleasing warmth the next. This was easy! What was I worried about? But where’s lunch? We’d started at 10am, and now it was gone 1pm! But like an oasis the vision of the kiosk at Rousse emerged. But not just a vision…….. although the crab sandwiches must have been made in Heaven!

Not much further to go, and with the terrain still flat and legs only a little weary we made our way to Chouet and on to Pembroke Bay. Clive was keen to continue the walk on to town. We took the bus, gently tired, yet enervated.

What better than an “amble” along the Guernsey coast? I’m in for next week! But I will check for the coffee stops beforehand.