🏁 More Than Words – Stage 52: The End of the Affair 🏁
A whole year. Fifty‑two stages. 2,876km. From Shetland’s sideways wind to Cornwall’s granite theatre — and somehow the final kilometres were completed on a Norwegian mountaintop while my virtual self was bouncing across the Atlantic on a Royal Mail ferry. Geography, at this point, simply gave up and let the vibes drive.
Featuring:
🧊 Lysefjord RIB — survival onesie, 40 knots, questionable spine decisions
🚡 Loen Skylift — 1,011m straight up in a glass conservatory on a zip wire
🛥️ Scillonian III — a Royal Mail ferry with “buoyant enthusiasm”
🐟 Mousehole — charm, pilchards, and a Spanish revenge tour
🎨 Lamorna — artists, hermits, and a cove with main‑character energy
🔦 Tater Du — a lighthouse that looks like a cliff‑edge utility cupboard
📡 Porthcurno — a beach hut that accidentally became the Pentagon
🪨 Carn Barges — granite older than most continents
🌊 St Agnes — final landfall, final chapter, final kilometre
Twelve months of walking, writing, swearing at weather apps, crossing seas, climbing ridges, chasing mileage, and occasionally declaring small boats to be geological features. And now: the spreadsheet is complete, the Apple Watch has stopped vibrating like an anxious bee, and the UK extremes expedition is officially closed.
One more thing: a bonus post drops next week — a final curtain call for the whole project.