not 50 paces away from where I finished walking on Saturday, at 7
o'clock this morning. Many thanks to him and Valaria for letting me
make their house a chaos of laundry and kit and for feeding me up for
the week ahead.
Armed with my freshly installed OS maps I headed off the tarmac and
into lovely rolling fields and wooded glades. Immediately a new hazard
presented itself; the cow and her calf! They haven't given me much
trouble so far but the cows have looked a bit threatening if the calf
gets skittish. Im sure at some point on this trip I'll run in to a
bull and then things might get interesting.
The first three hours I walked off road but then I realised that my
planned route went straight across the river Parret but unfortunately
not via a bridge and had to detour a couple of miles south to
Burrowbridge. From here there was no logical route to take other than
the road through to Street, the neighbouring town to Glastonbury. So
it was back to plodding along on the hard tarmac with the cars and
trucks spoiling the peace and quiet. The weather was beautiful all day
and a bit nicer than i'd have liked; shouldn't complain though as it's
much better than pouring rain! I got in to Street at 4 o'clock and
rewarded myself with a couple of pasties (I may soon look like a
pasty!) before heading to Tesco's to stock up on pasta, porridge and
chocolate and something nice to cook in the hostel tonight.
Today's pictures are of Burrow Mump, a small ruin on a small but very
steep hill, the pretty spaniel that befriended me when I stopped for a
pint of shandy and of a nice woody path from this morning.
Daily stats
Start - Broomfield
Finish - Street
Miles - 21
Miles to go - 900 ish
That's all folks ;-)
