Day 72 Another short day

Today we were still a bit tired. We hadn’t slept that well (snorers all around kept Graham awake-I didn’t hear them-and rain on the tent at 5am woke me). We knew we only had 8.5 miles to do today so we had booked breakfast at the pub and had a leisurely time reading a book […]

Day 71 A Day of Waterfalls and Tan Hill Inn

Today we ended up at the highest pub in Great Britain. Unfortunately, that meant quite a lot of height to be gained in the course of the day so I’m rather tired now. After an early breakfast with Brenda, I met Graham as planned (he had been detailed to provide lunch from the Spar shop) […]

Day 70 Rest Day 12 in Hawes

Today I stayed in bed watching Tom Daley winning gold at the Olympics as breakfast wasn’t until 8.30. In fact, it wasn’t until a bit later than that as my very sociable landlady, Brenda, felt that all her guests should be together before she gave them breakfast. I had a few tasks to do today, […]

Day 69 Another sociable day

Today I was meeting my friends Charles and Sally who were driving over from near Manchester to walk with me to Hawes. Despite the music last night I slept well (apart from the angry voice incident) and woke about six. I had a leisurely breakfast and headed off to the car park to meet them. […]

Day 68 Malham to Horton- in-Ribblesdale

Today started with another geography lesson. I was on my way by 7.20 as I had a long (14 miles) day which started with what my guidebook said were “more than 400 steps”. I found out later there were 426. I walked the mile and a half to Malham Cove-a large cliff-face-and started the steps. […]

Day 67 A Cooler and Shorter Day

Today I only had 6.5 miles to walk. The day started cloudy and stayed cloudy for quite some time. Despite trying to delay my start, I was ready to leave by 9am. The path led uphill out of Gargrave, over the Leeds and Liverpool canal and out into the countryside and the Yorkshire Dales National […]

Day 66 A longer, hotter day.

Today I left early trying to beat the heat. There were only the three young men and myself at the campsite and they left at about the same time as me. They had heavy-looking tents and heavy-looking packs and I was in awe of how fast they had walked yesterday laden with those packs. Until […]

Day 65 A short day

Today, when I woke up, I realised that the sun wasn’t shining. I looked out and saw low cloud on the hills. It was wonderful. I was woken by the cry of a peacock, followed by a very noisy piece of farm machinery at 6am. Oh well. I didn’t get up for a while as […]

Day 64 Camping again

Today was a difficult day. The way out of Hebden Bridge (after a trip to the Co-op to buy some lunch) was up some steep stone steps. These were followed by more uphill, including what seemed to be an old quarry known as Hell Hole. The views back down to Hebden Bridge were good, and […]

Day 63 The twite triangle

Today was another hot day. The first mile back to the Pennine Way was uphill but Stephen, the landlord from the pub drove me up there after an early breakfast. I set off at 8.10 along a relatively easy path. To tell the truth, the scenery was a bit dull so I had to take […]