We've made it!

Can't believe it but we're here and have made it to Robin Hood's Bay.
What an achievement. We're so chuffed and here we are with our
celebratory drink in Wainwright's bar in the Bay Hotel which is
tradition at the end. Cheers!

Dirty Boots

Only one more day to go for these muddy boots - then we can rinse them
off in the North Sea tomorrow. My left boot has been particularly
pongy since I sank it into a bog on Cold Moor yesterday.
Today's walk was a straightforward 10 miler from Blakey Ridge to the
village of Glaisdale going by the wonderfully named Great Fryup Dale.
We've left ourselves with a lot to do on the final day, it's hard to
be exact, but it looks like it will be 18 or 19 miles with a few hills
along the way.

Today we've had more lovely scenery as we did yesterday with the great
expanse of the Moors around us.

We can't believe it's our last day tomorrow, we're actually going to
miss it! Although it will be nice not having any fried produce option
for breakfast.

Ta ra a bit.

American werewolf in London....

....was based on the north York moors where we were today. Thankfully
the scariest thing we saw today were some guinea fowl which make a
really horrible noise and I thought they were going to peck my legs
off (this is Kate typing by the way)!!

Gorgeous weather today - we put some sun screen on. We had a lovely
walk through a pine forest before we headed out on the moors. I've
never seen them before and the purple heather just goes on for miles -
it's lovely. We did some climbing and had a wonderful view all the way
to the North Sea where we are headed as our final destination.

The walk continued up and down the hills and my knee is starting to
hurt a bit on the descents now.

Everyone is starting to encourage everyone else now as we head into
our last few days. It feels weird thinking we are near the end after
so much build up to the walk but we've got some more challenges,
including a 19 mile final day into Robin hoods bay.

Until tomorrow...

12 miles.

Banana split!

It's A Record!

Today was Richmond to Ingleby Cross, the longest day of the walk at 24
miles, and also the longest we have ever walked. Here are Kate's feet
about 2 mins after we got to the b and b with her first blister, but
thankfully only a small one.

Blessed with good weather today and pork pie! Good job cos shins and
hips are starting to hurt, ow.

We plodded on and managed 13 miles before lunch. We stopped at a place
called Danby Wiske and stopped at the pub for an orange juice. Quite a
lot of the coasters were on the beer but we've made that mistake
before so decided to do our last 10 miles on OJ and Lucozade body fuel
- ooer!

We didn't feel too bad getting into the final few miles - until we had
to cross the A19. Apparently some walkersburst into tears at this
point, but luckily we were made of sterner stuff and darted across the
four lanes of doom without being squished. Our B&B turned out to be
half a mile from Ingleby Cross but after walking so far another half
mile to take our boots off, then another half mile to get some food,
and then another half mile to get home again is nothing! Well not
exactly nothing but after we stopped swearing we set off for fishcakes
and banana splits!
Another day tomorrow - just a quick 13 miler if memory serves...

Richmond, with it's historic Norman Keep

Another easy day today, just 10.5 miles from Reeth to Richmond, so 4
happy hours plodding along in the rain. We stopped for lunch under a
tree and unpacked some of the thickest sandwiches I've ever seen and a
packet of cheese and onion crisps. We got into Richmond by 2 and at
our apartment by 2.30. It's huge with a massive plasma and the first
bath on the C2C to ease the aching feet and limbs. Tomorrow our
biggest challenge, 23 miles.....wish us luck. Tata for now.

All creatures

Sat 18 sept. From Keld to Reeth today in lovely sunshine - hooray. We went along the river Swale. This area is where All Creatures Great and Small was filmed. It was a nice peaceful day as we were walking on our own for quite a while. We sat by the river to have a snack in the sun then carried on through the dales and moors until we reached the capital of Swaledale, Reeth, at 3.30pm, perfect timing for a cup of tea and slice of cake! 12 miles

We also found out that 2 days ago 16 people dropped out of the walk so even though we had to miss a day we are doing pretty well. There have been some terrible blister stories and several people are suffering with their knees especially on the down hill but Tim has only had one blister and so far I have escaped without any (famous last words?).....