Google Earth is a great tool for planning any hiking trip. It’s possible to visualise the entire walk, including an elevation profile, to make it easier to plan how far to walk each day. In 2018, we completed the first half of the 1,000k walk along the South West Coast Path (SWCP) from Minehead to Falmouth and this year we will walk the second half from Falmouth to Bournemouth. The 500k walk will be closer to 400k, as there have been so many washouts on this section, that we opted for a bus instead of walking the re-routed path along a busy A road.
