Welcome to the Land's End to Somerdale Pavilion Walk Blog

Follow our journey as we trek from Land’s End to Somerdale Pavilion to raise funds for the Children’s Hospice South West and Fry Club JFC. Get updates, see photos, and support our cause!

Check out the Green, Green Grassroots of Football podcast where Andy & Mark are joined by Tom to discuss the preparation and requirements needed in order to undertake this walk.  Click on the Image to listen to the episode.

Saturday 14th - Day 8

So this was it! The last Day! The final 30! We actually started on the front at W-S-M and an opportunity to get opening proof that Mark was wearing a Man Utd shirt, something that would get £400 towards our total if we both did on the final day...

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Friday 13th June - Day 7

With just one more day to go we found our way onto a very pleasant path!  After leaving Wellington we headed into Taunton, and just behind the Country Ground is the start of the Southern leg of the Somerset Space Walk, a 14 mile walk along the tow-path of the Bridgwater to Taunton canal, with proportionally sized and distanced representations of the planets in our Solar System!  We started at Pluto...

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Thursday 12th June - Day 6

Thursday was always going to be a straight-forward, but monotonous day as we headed away from the sea and railway trails, and back onto dirt paths.  It started off okay with the estuary by our side... at least it would have if it hadn't have been for the driving rain!

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Wednesday 11th June - Day 5

Mark, Tom and Andy were on the Tarka Trail, and the portion they were on you can pick up just north of Okehampton and it winds its way up through woods and valleys past Great Torrington on an old railway track with a lovely tunnel!

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Monday 9th June - Day 3

For day three we were down to 2 of us as Tom‘s feet were covered in blisters to the extent that our support car (Fran) had to spend the whole day at Redruth hospital having blisters professionally cut away and antibiotics administered with feet bandaged up. Mark and Andy set out from St Austell, headed out north towards Bodmin and a few miles south of Bodmin picked up the Saints Way towards Padstow and followed that with roads then lanes and tracks and then fields.

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You too can do your bit!  If you would like to support our fundraising then please donate to our Crowdfunding Page:

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About us

Fry Club JFC is dedicated to proving girls and boys access to football as well as a pathway to adult football. To help with this we organise a variety of fundraising events such as this charity walk to support both the Children's Hospice and our causes and make a positive impact in our community. Join us in making a difference one step at a time.

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