Day -1 : Daily routine : Worth Matravers to Swanage

23.02.2022: Weather still very gusty, cloudy and a bit of rain. Today I started with my little friend (the foldable bike) to get from Swansea to a parking area in Worth Matravers. Actually, at this stage with all the hills in this region the bike and myself are not the BEST friends but I have to rely on it and will hope it takes me to the most secret places.

However, in advance I made plan for the first week on the path. Not only the path itself but also the logistics, parking my van somewhere where it is allowed and in reach of the SWCP. I looked up the parking lot close to Worth Matravers via google maps and thought, brilliant that will do. What I did not encounter was height restrictions to go on that parking place. So, no chance to pick up my friend later in the night. Not daily routine – finding workarounds will be the routine. Felt a bid sad to leave the little friend up there in the nowhere…

But what else I realized and what annoyed me a lot was the fact that I did not start the action cam in the right way. At least it did record but maybe half the way it stopped recoding and came up with the message „memory card full“. Okay, it was not the biggest card inserted (I put in a bigger card now, just in case) but as i started the cam in normal and not in timewarp mode it of course consumed much more memory and also voice. Was a bit of funny to hear my own groaning when climbing up the hills… but also I was able to hear my „JUCHHHUUUU“. Obviously I need to find a daily routine to do all the checks which are necessary for recording the complete path.

There was also no routine on this section of the path concerning my aim of garbage collection . I did not find anything I could have collected and brought to the nearest bin. This is good, better than expected!

Have a look at my video footage, at least what I made out of the bits I had on my cam and smartphone…