Day 19 Once Brewed to Bellingham (pronounced Belling-jam!?) 16 miles 9 hours
We had such a lovely stop at the Saughy Rigg farm with their amazing hospitality, food and surroundings it was a bit of a wrench to but those boots on again and start the 4 day slog to the end! We rejoined Hadrians wall at Peel Crags for some sharp scramble ups and downs..if only someone had the good sense to zip wire the peaks it would save an awful lot of effort! If you are into your films, Hollywood placed the loan Sycamore tree from the Robin Hood film on the wall. Eventually the Pennine Way leaves the wall at Rapishaw Gap and heads right into Barbarian land..made up of a variation of marsh and bog. The view is interesting here as this is the first sight of flat lands and forest but unfortunately as per so many other days the wet summer has made the ground horrendously soggy.
It's a hard slog through bogs and I'd love to know how many miles we've added on just by circumnavigating the swimmers! We plodded through the boggy forest as dad fell in 4 times and we were attacked by various pine trees. All the excitement to get to the forest and all we wanted to do was get out of it!
It felt like a long and soggy day on sore feet but the arrival of the Pervis's gave us a much needed boost. Miora & Allan will walk with us into Kirk Yetholm which will just give us that final spurt of energy required!
Robin Hoods Tree
View from other side of the Wall
Dad's upped the athlete status
Day 19 done
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