Today was a day of the most spectacular views yet. It was also a day with at least six challenging climbs and descents. And,of course the daunting trails along the cliff’s edge. Some of my fellow hikers were spotting a seal or two moving along the coast.

A section of the footpath is cut into the slope of the cliff. Some of the descents were strictly hard rock without a single spot to plot a pole.

Soon enough, we are peering down at the beach in the village of Llangrannog. We make our way down the cliff and mingle with the vacationers.

At the end of a stupendous day, we arrive at our hotel in Aberporth for the evening. I find when I have been traveling for a few weeks or longer, sometimes things just seem odd. This trip it was the Highcliff Hotel, a name out of a Gothic novel. The hotel was well appointed, our room was spotless, but there was no one there. As in no people, no staff, just us. Other than a single woman who quickly passed our door codes to our leader and then seemed to disappear into the woodwork, there was no one. In seemed all the more odd after experiencing throughout the hike a series of inns exuding warm reception areas and people congregating in their pubs,

It was my Twilight Zone moment. In fairness, the hotel’s website does say it is an ‘unmanned property’ but all the same wouldn’t you find this a bit spooky?

Perhaps its best that tomorrow is the final day of hiking, although I will be sad to say goodby to these beautiful cliffs.