Round Britain Walkers call into St Ives Lifeboat House

First thing Monday Morning (23rd April 2007), three round Britain walkers raising money for the RNLI and Guidedogs, called into St Ives Lifeboat Station to say hello before starting off for their days walk to the Portreath area.

The three walkers, Soapy, Bubbles & Havoc (Wendy Bathard,  Paul Barber and their dog) from Bovey Tracey gave up their jobs for this project, and set off from John O'Groats, Scotland on 13th November last year, with the intention of walking ʽclockwiseʼ around Britain in 50 weeks. Their aim is to raise £50,000 from the walk to be split between the RNLI and Guidedogs, some of the money raised prior to the trip, but most raised during the walk..  They arrived at Lands End on Sunday 15th April, not quite half way through the trip but getting there, reaching St Ives on Sunday afternoon 22nd April.

Soapy, Bubbles & Havoc are undertaking the trip with no support crew, carrying all their own gear and staying mostly in their tent, calling on the hospitality of friends when they can, as they did in St Ives.

When asked how the trip was going, Paul said that the winter had not actually been too bad, however things had slowed up when they reached the difficult coastline of Cornwall.  Even with our testing Coastline to slow them down, after 23 weeks of walking they are only a couple of days behind schedule and should arrive back in John O'Groats this November.