Pleebrat on the Path

Miles: (god knows, got lost, around 9? RT: 50) Falafels: 0 :( Smelly start today near Lamby Way Recycling Centre. Opened in the 1970s when the Rumney River was diverted to create the Lamby Way industrial site, the landfill was "capped" (meaning no more landfill, everything to be recycled or used to make fuel) in 2018 but with the sun blazing today there is a definite niff in the air. There are a few pockets of loveliness even here though with Lamby Way Fishing lake.  Everything else though is looking a bit muddy and here is where it goes horrible wrong for me.  Somewhere between a missing Coastal Path Sign, admiring this street art and shovelling pasta into my face, I end up off the coastal path and lost amongst the steel works and water treatment plant at Rover Way. It feels pretty bleak a the post apocalyptic industrial wasteland scenery doesn't help... Although a rude looking buddleja does cheer my right up.

Miles: 12.4 ( RT: 41.4) Falafel: 0 :( Blue skies over City Bridge in Newport to start us off today.  I have another walking buddy for this leg, which cheers up this familiar (I work just down the road from here) urban scenery.  It's an urban start, again dominated by the Transporter bridge but there are pockets of green here and there. Loved these popping plants as a kid. I knew a Great Dane who would pop the seed pods with his nose. Near Duffryn, we cross the railway and things get decidedly more rural... There's even cows. They are sitting down though which means it's going to rain according to my nan. It doesn't rain though, so the cow version of Derick the Walking Weatherman needs to check her instruments. One last glance at the Transporter Bridge, and we are out onto the foreshore.  This is Usk West Lighthouse, the sister of the Lighthouse fro