Nothing to do with ships of the desert, the Camel is a river in Cornwall alongside which a railway line once ran, before being “axed” by Dr Richard Beeching in the nineteen-sixties. Dr Beeching unintentionally created many miles of cycle path during his brief but, most people think, disasterous time as the chairman of The British Railways Board. Volunteers are preserving some of the original track and a station. We cycled the path from Wenford Bridge to Padstow and back, via Bodmin and Wadebridge, staying at the pleasant, tranquil and exotic-sounding Camp De Lank camping and glamping site at St Breward.