Really nice hosts and we enjoyed the breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. The weather however, started off not too nice with rain in the forecast until 1:00 pm and windy. Temperatures were hovering around 12 - 16C. Photography today was almost all iPhone as I had my good camera sealed in a plastic freezer bag.
Jim (the host at the B&B) drove us back to the trail to start the walk and by then the rain and backed off and it was generally overcast, cool and humid
We are now out of the lake district and the higher peaks. We are walking through pasture land in the moors which was sodden from last nights rains making for muddy pants and wet feet. Its really hard to describe how much poop is on the path!
We had a hard time finding shelter (and a poo free area) to stop for lunch but we finally huddled behind one of the stone walls for a brief break.
Near Smardale was some of the nicer scenery with a really nice stone railway trestle in the distance.
We were now on our final stage of approaching Kirkby Stephen and were feeling good about getting to our Inn and having a nice hot shower after 20 km and 500 m vertical climbing.
After getting cleaned up, we headed to the pub to sample some more unique beers.
For supper, it was Indian night at this splendid Indian restaurant.
Jim & I then headed to another pub in the quest to achieve our unique beer goal of 40 for the trip. Those who know the "Engineer's Hymn" would know the significance of the number 40. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godiva%27s_Hymn
The others retired for the night. By 10:00 pm, the mission was accomplished and we called it a night.
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