Weather: Wet.
Distance:
16 km (10 miles) Total Distance: 3489 miles
I had been staying with friends in the Lake District for a
weekend doing some wet walking. Two of us had stayed on the extra night in the cottage. My friend took me out the previous
evening and we sampled beer in Ulverston, had a meal at his favourite pub –
famed for where the Beatrix Potter films were made and then went back to the
local where unbelievably we won the quiz, just the two of us where as other
teams had five or six in their team. The
questions were not exactly taxing, such as who scored the winning drop goal
for England in the rugby world cup the previous weekend (Johnny
Wilkinson). The tie-breaker question to
split the three tying teams at the end was what is the total amount of money in
a Monopoly set? Strangely enough we
managed to get pretty close.
We had had enough of walking up mountains and not seeing anything enticing
in the area plus a lot of drizzle, I persuaded him to come coastal path walking
with me. Unfortunately for him it was
not the most exciting stretch of coastline – the end of the Ribble Estuary out
to Southport, mainly along sea defences between mash land and farmland. Added to that, it started to rain for the
second half of the walk!
It did however
give me an opportunity to ware the gaiters I had bought in Ambleside. I walk the whole coast of England and Wales
and only now decide to buy a pair of gaiters – what a twerp! Having two cars however meant we could park
one at the end and didn’t have to worry about hitching back – a pleasure that my friends therefore missed out on – hitching in the rain! The walk was so plane that there is little
point in mentioning anything about it!
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