Coast to Coast Day 6

Day 6
August 16
Nikki Birthday

We started the day in a leisurely fashion taking group photos with our American friends and Miles. We had an early side trip to a ruin The Shap Monastery and a pub lunch in Shap washed down with a couple of pints of Theakestones ( Miles is a bad influence). Oh yes whilst at the Monastery we met with the Americans who told us that Joe,a diminutive man reminiscent of Hiram Holiday,had been bitten by a cattle dog as they had walked through a farm yard it had drawn blood.He was unconcerned. We were impressed with the local media as as we entered Shap some 60 minutes the local newspaper had the headline "Dog Attack" beat that Murdoch we thought.

Miles left us after lunch to return to his car and we pressed on and on and on crossing the M6 and then as the sound of the traffic diminished we walked through some quite beautiful countryside lots of sheep but the scenery was England at its best low stone walls green grass where even the brown bits were green lovely river valleys and some interesting geological elements limestone pavements,historic elements .....the supposed burial place of Robin Hood and archeological interest...Stone Circles supposedly sacred Druid places.

We literally walked up dale and down dale and my knee told me so. At last after a total of 24 k we reached our destination for the night at about 5.45 pm a B&B just outside Orton where we enjoyed some convivial company a very tasty home made lasagne and a couple of glasses of red. One of our fellow guests was an Aussie Physio who advised me on various methods to reduce the knee pain and inflammation. God is indeed looking out for us I believe.