Kington to Knighton

Thank you to Tim B who was a star and delivered tea in bed again this morning at 6am, and to my Steve who put coffee in the flask again today!!

Today’s walk has been very pleasant, with quite a bit of sun and some beautiful scenery – but someone should have told this Offa person to build his dyke on the flat, because it was very ‘undulating’ today.  We actually walked on, or next to the dyke for quite a lot today, as we hadn’t really seen it for a couple of days.  I picked up a leaflet at the Offa’s dyke visitor centre in Knighton where we finished the walk and it lists the areas of natural beauty we go through – Wye valley, Shropshire hills, Clwydian range / dee valley; Brecon beacons (black mountains).

Girls on the dyke

The highlight of the day was when we stopped for lunch; we had just seen some other walkers who told us the local church in Dolly’s green (what a great name) was doing teas J.  So the church was about 50 yards away from the path, but we went up and found that they were clearing up after their bank holiday festivities yesterday.  They had had the Swansea male voice choir and lots of other events.  We were made very welcome and sat on benches outside the hall; the pastor (John Thomas) put the kettle on and his wife and others fetched cake, sausage rolls and sandwiches which had been left from yesterday; then they introduced us to 2 South Korean girls who had been staying there and they played the violin and sang to us – they were very good; - what an amazing lunch stop.

After lunch is was back up another hill and along a bit where we eventually met up with Carol and Tim who had started walking from the end.  We descended then into Knighton, which is another lovely town.

Feet didn’t feel as bad as yesterday, but unfortunately Walt didn’t walk today as he has knee and groin problems, but is hoping to walk again tomorrow.  Others in the team also have knee issues; not helped by lots of downs.  There are supposed to be even more up and downs tomorrow - and showers!!  Feeling very tired tonight, so off to bed really early.  But before I go, Alan has let me have his photos, and the following one was taken in Monmouth before we started that day's walk.

Occasionally we actually do it properly!!