Day 10 Flat Land and Cloudy Skies

It was a cloudy day.

We went in a taxi back to Richmond and set off following the Swale river heading East, of course.

The day was unremarkable starting off through lovely woodland by the river leading on to grassy fields with gates and stiles separating one from another across the Vale of Mowbry.

There was some excitement as we crossed the A1 when we realised we had passed the two thirds mark. Yippee. Each step was one step nearer our destination.

Lunch was eaten once again in a churchyard which I must say is a bit weird but at least this time there were seats and people weren't sitting on grave stones.

In the afternoon we passed through some fields of maize and wild flowers which added some colour into the day and also an ingenious plastic box set up in a hedge with a visitors book inside. It had been put there by the farmer who helped make the tracks good for C2C walkers so they could write a comment as they passed through.

Alfred Wainwright described this part of the walk as uninspiring and said it was time for contemplating the incredible scenery passed in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales and what lies ahead on the North York Moors.

15 miles on we entered Danby Wiske bringing our total to 132.5 miles in total with approx 60 left to do.

My feet are starting to feel like hooves in my boots by the end of the day. My boots need a good clean but I think that may happen tomorrow in the wall to wall rain forecast. It's going to be a long hard slog tomorrow.

Back at Hartforth Hall our hosts David and Anne laid on Pimms in the pink drawing room before dinner. I had a Sunday roast of beef followed by lemon meringue pie and by 8.30pm most people were heading for bed. And this is supposed to be a holiday????

Time to get my feet up too. X