Weather:Sunny/windy; Steps: 39,441 Distance: 20 miles; Time: 8h 30m; Calories out: 1209; Blisters: nil
Solid blue skies today, though very windy so although still in shorts needed my anorak for most of the day. Today was the longest walk so far, but also the flattest. After a short steep climb up we were back on the moors all day, for a long time following an old railway track. Then in the middle of no there was the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge and had a cooked lunch. Then back to more moors walking. It got a bit boring after a while. But there were two highlights. The first was 'Fat Betty', a stone waymark where tradition says you must leave a food offering in exchange for taking something left by a previous visitor. I left a Werthers orginal and took a rather well travelled tangerine. The second highlight was coming across an adder sunning itself by the path. Thankfully the adder slithered away when he saw me, though I did manage to get a couple of photos.
We're staying on a farm, run by an elderly lady and everything here dates back to the thirties or forties! I don't think I'll ask if she has wifi! So this penultimate C2C blog will be a day late.
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