I will walk 500 miles challenge for Velindre

 Off we set on the 10th and first had some exploring around Caerphilly as we'd never been before. What an impressive castle! The largest in Wales and the second largest in Britain After a night in the Aberavon Beach hotel in Port Talbot which we have visited before a couple of times, (we have great memories of the times there and the people are so friendly) we set off the next morning leaving the car at Ogmore and getting taxied to Llantwit Major to start the walk. Taxi drivers have been very hard hit by the pandemic and many have been "furloughed". It's hard to see if the hospitality industry will all survive. Some hotels are managing to tick over with housing key workers. I think we were about the only "tourists" in Port Talbot, usually it's so busy. So here we were on Llantwit beach....ready to start the day... And so up we went onto those amazing limestone cliffs, so stunning! The "pavements" are just so impressive and today the sea was rea...

Where it began... So I received an email from Velindre cancer centre fundraising in August announcing their new appeal to walk 500 miles! My family know only too well that this was our anthem when we finished the coast path walk in 2014 so it may become so again! ( Coastal walk 2013-2014 ) It was a challenge I decided I had to take and Chris, my walking (and life!) partner agreed we should accept the challenge and that's where this new walk began. Since August we've tried to make a start but as we all know only too well, making plans this year has been rather more difficult than we all expected! Sadly the charities which need to survive on voluntary donations have been hit very hard by this year's lockdowns and so I feel especially the need to raise some money if we can. I hope you may be able to help, if only a little. My justgiving page is: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/pamela-mallpress2020   Having not done quite as much walking as maybe I should have over recent months...