Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Five weeks and counting!!
Time is flying! Only five weeks to go before 'D Day', departure day that is. Which means only five weeks left to get practicing both walking and packing our heavily laden rucksacks!
Tuesday, 8 May 2007
More practice!
As we had a free weekend we decided to head up to the North York moors for a bit more practice for walking the wall as it is getting close in terms of getting an opportunity to get some more serious practice in! So on the Saturday we headed to The Bridestones on the edge of the Dalby Forest where we managed to fit in a walk of about 11 or so miles on a round walk to the Bridestones, see below!
One of the Bridestones which is looked after by the National Trust.
We then drove over to Ravenscar, the town that never was, in the early 1900's developers bought the land and set out plots ready to sell to build a town to rival Scarborough, however due to several factors, like the fact you can't get to the beach due to cliffs and severe erosion it was never built, although there are some tell tale signs like bit's of roads and pavements and the brickwork's which was going to be used to build the town! After stopping for a nice cup of tea in the tea shop we managed to walk another 3 or so miles walking down to the disused brick works and the Alum works which made and interesting end to the day.
On the Sunday we took it a bit easier with a 7 1/2 mile walk out from where we were staying over Bransdale moor, which apart from being very windy on the top of the moor and quite busy with Land Rover and motorcycles on discover Yorkshire trails, it was still an interesting walk and near the end we spotted a yellow skunk cabbage on the edge of a woodland which was in flower.
Yellow Skunk Cabbage.
One of the Bridestones which is looked after by the National Trust.
We then drove over to Ravenscar, the town that never was, in the early 1900's developers bought the land and set out plots ready to sell to build a town to rival Scarborough, however due to several factors, like the fact you can't get to the beach due to cliffs and severe erosion it was never built, although there are some tell tale signs like bit's of roads and pavements and the brickwork's which was going to be used to build the town! After stopping for a nice cup of tea in the tea shop we managed to walk another 3 or so miles walking down to the disused brick works and the Alum works which made and interesting end to the day.
On the Sunday we took it a bit easier with a 7 1/2 mile walk out from where we were staying over Bransdale moor, which apart from being very windy on the top of the moor and quite busy with Land Rover and motorcycles on discover Yorkshire trails, it was still an interesting walk and near the end we spotted a yellow skunk cabbage on the edge of a woodland which was in flower.
Yellow Skunk Cabbage.
Cleaning the act up!
No, we haven't been doing things we shouldn't have! Just finding more ways to keep the weight down. As we don't want to end up at the end of the walk all smelly from all that hard work we have come up with a bit of another wacky idea to lighten the load whilst keeping clean at the same time. Instead of taking bulky and heavy shower gel and shampoo we decided to decant the contents from their original bottles and into re-cycled squeezy drinks bottles, remembering to label them so we don't get them mixed up! See the pictures below!
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
We have the technology!!
The test message below was sent from my phone with thanks to google mail and their mobile service so we will be able to send text message type posts along the walk!! Although no pictures and they will only be short but we will at least be able to update you all through out the week how it is going, then will do a full report when we get back!
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