MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019

GO WITH THE FLOW

Our travel correspondent Simon Calder is making the most of the UK

in August by taking on a challenge a day, and hopes that you might

follow. Today: from the summit of Cornwall’s highest peak to the

source of the Fowey River, then following the waterway all the way to

the sea

Good omen: a rainbow yesterday on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall (Simon Calder)

Africa has Kilimanjaro, the Americas have Aconcagua and Asia has Everest. The highest point in Cornwall,
meanwhile, is Brown Willy.

From Jamaica Inn, the notorious smugglers’ hideaway turned roadhouse for long-suffering drivers on the
A30, squelch your way northwest for two-and-a-half miles across the boggy fields of Bodmin Moor, with

Section 2 /Seven Adventures in Seven Days