Well
that's very peculiar, yesterday’s blog post seems to have
disappeared! I don’t know what has
happened to it, but I think a few of you must have seen it before it went AWOL.
Anyway
to today - ooooo we are very tired; we started off as usual at about 8.15 with
the usual hill, but there seemed to be quite a lot of hills today. Of course it was raining, but before we set
of it looked as though it was going to be quite a nice day, so no-one put any
waterproof trousers on – so on the bus as the rain set in we were putting our
trousers on. There was also quite a lot
of mist first thing and at one point where I was near the back I couldn’t see
the front person. However the mist did
clear and it was quite spectacular as we walked over the Clywdian range, there were views for miles
and we caught our first glimpse of the sea – it still seems an awfully long way
away; we spotted an off shore wind farm which is near Prestatyn.
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We plodded on and got to the high point of
the day (1818 feet) which was George III’s golden Jubilee tower (1810) . There were signs on top with distances, and
amazingly we were only 20 miles from Liverpool pier.
After this is was up and down for what seemed
to be a long way at which point I in particular wished I was with Carol on the
bus as my legs were not really doing what they were told – I don’t think I was
the only one feeling the effects of 11 days walking – I thought I was supposed
to be getting fitter! We eventually went
down a very steep slope – some very slowly due to having dodgy knees (none of
us are that young any more L) and we had a very
welcome break and lunch sitting against a sheltered wall – it had actually
stopped raining by now and the sun was beginning to make an appearance, so we
stripped off the leggings. Walter had
forty winks J and it was the quietest I had known us to be as everyone was just eating and resting, and no-one could even be bothered to take a photograph!
After lunch – you’ve guessed it – more hills, and then a very long 3 mile descent into
Bodfari and Carol with the bus – hooray!
Back
to the house and a very welcome cup of tea with a rock cake that Carol had made
during the day. Now a very tired Walter,
Helen and Tim are cooking beef stroganoff.
So
– just 12 more miles to do tomorrow into Prestatyn, and we will have completed
the Offa’s dyke route – talking of which, we haven’t seen the dyke for the last
couple of days as apparently it wasn't ever totally finished, so who-ever put
this long distance route together decided to finish the trail through another
area of out outstanding beauty - the Vale of Clwyd.
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