Wark to Bellingham
Today's miles: 5.2 (only 5.2!)
Today's Ascent: 734
Today's Descent: 958
Total miles so far: 233.1
Star team member: Dad, for organising such a short day!
News Update on Paddy: I know a lot of you will be breathing a sigh of relief when I tell you that Paddy is on the mend. Personally, I think it was the BioOil I so lovingly rubbed on his poorly paw, but i think the rain and lots of dips in the river did him good.
Well, what can I say? Today was short and simple, and very very enjoyable (because of the two factors mentioned, probably!). Most Pennine Wayfarers generally tend to walk from Twice Brewed to Bellingham, a total of 13 miles, but as the last 3 days after that are really hard (16,16,18), Sherpa Dad made the decision to split Twice Brewed to Bellingham, meaning today was only 5.2 miles; great decision Dad!
We set off from where we left off yesterday, and climbed the stile into the rolling fields. We walked through the fields, past lots and lots of sheep, and Paddy found a rather large stick, that he had to leave behind when it wouldn't fit through the gate.
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| Ambitious Paddy |
We walked through the fields (this is going to be an occurrence for today- because that is basically all we did! Oh well, I will try to glorify it a bit for you!) Here is a nice picture for you to look at while I try to think of a way to glorify fields...
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| Still going strong |
I just would like to say a bit thank you to Sherpa Dad, who has taken all the photographs of our journey, they are pretty good, i have to say. Of course the best picture was the one that I took, of the Wild Beasts of the Pennines, back on day 06;
http://caitlinspw.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/day-06-moo-ving-on.html clearly the best.
Anyway, we walked down to a footbridge and I nearly fell down the bank into the river while throwing stones for Paddy (not funny Dad), and continued on to climb Shitlington Crags (
I am going to be totally mature about this because it is NOT funny. Hilarious!). From here we stopped and had a break, with a mere 2 miles to go. Usually 5 miles on a normal 12 miles day seems to go on forever, but not today! I wonder why....
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| Looking back from Shitlington Crags *snigger* |
We walked through a few more fields, with Bellingham in sight.
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| Bellingham |
It was a simple matter of walking down the hill, through some heather, past some cows until we hit the main road that took us into Bellingham.
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| Walking down to Bellingham |
The road wasn't particularly pleasant walking, but it got us there quickly. We crossed a bridge over the North Tyne (Alston was the South Tyne), and walked down to our hotel in Bellingham.
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| The North Tyne |
We didn't really know what to do with ourselves, having never got to our destination so early (3 hours!), it was 2 o'clock. The hotel had a swimming pool, but when you are walking the Pennine Way, you do not have room in your pack for luxuries like swimming costumes. Apparently not! Sherpa Dad had bought his without telling Mam and I! Luckily, (for Sherpa Dad's sake!) the hotel had some spares, so we had a swim, then went into Bellingham to stock up on chocolate.
Tomorrow, a much harder day, 16 miles, so a more detailed post is definite.
See you tomorrow,
Caitlin x
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