Final Reflections

After reaching Land's End we spent a few hours enjoying the attractions, including 4D cinema and the comfort of the Land's End Hotel where we signed the guest book to formally record our journey.  We also took time to walk around to Sennen again and visit the First and Last pub in England, complete with smuggler's tunnel which we had skipped the previous day.  On returning to the hotel, we were greeted by an amazing sunset that provided an opportunity to get some good photos by the signpost without the masses of tourists.
The following day it felt strange to be getting up at a normal time, enjoying a good breakfast and not having to walk 25 Miles.  Instead, we had to endure a dreadfully overcrowded 5 hour train journey back to London from Penzance.  From there it was another train journey back to Milton Keynes and a final taxi leg where I got the driver to drop me off early so that I could walk the final half a mile home.  And so the long journey ended and it was back to the world of clean clothes, home cooking, daily chores and the day job.
On reflection, it still doesn't seem possible that we walked all that way.  Tim lost one and a half Stones and I lost half a stone which I put on again after just one week of having an insatiable appetite.  I found that none of my shoes fitted me when I got home, my feet had gone up by a whole size!  The blisters have now disappeared leaving the soles of my feet feeling like shoe leather and I have a numb section of thigh that came on in the first week of the journey and still hasn't returned to normal.
Would I do it again? Yes, of course, I'd love to, although at a slower pace, in fact I'd have liked to have carried on from Land's End and walked around the South West Coastal Path.  I'm not sure that I will ever get the opportunity to be away from home and work for such a long period of time again though, so for now it is just nice to know that I have done it and to look back at my leisure on all the amazing bits.

Best Bit
There were many good bits, almost every day had parts that I would like to go back to, but my favourite bit was the stretch of the South West Coastal Path from Helston to Penzance on the penultimate day.  Maybe it was because we had been away from the sea for so long, or that we were just so used to the walking by then that everything felt good, or maybe just that the end was in sight.  Whatever the reason, it was my favourite bit.

Worst Bit
 Reaching Land's End was a complete let down for me.  The realisation that it was all over combined with the masses of people made the ending feel very dull.
Long hot days walking along boring canals with painful blisters will also be an enduring bad memory.