HomeMy WebLinkAboutGoderich Signal Star, 2011-11-16, Page 19xlerich Signal -Star • Wednesday, November 16, 2011
iking `Coast To Coast" across England
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warned not to take the high
yr the Penines the backbone
ritish Isles because the bogs
w deep and dangerous. !took
t i but easier lower path into
let of field - 12 stone houses
best, smallest pub in the York-
les.
orkles.
the halfway point was the log-
s forme to quit but there was
nit so 1 gave it one more day.
Lit a day! The sun came out,1
shorts • and for the seven glop
r -s 1 followed the hanks of the
file all the way to Reeth. 1 took
talked to the sheep and
actually sat down to eat my lunch.
And it was all, in every respect, all
downhill from there.
Reeth is the picture perfect town
where they filmed James Heniot's tel-
evision series All Oeatures Great And
Small. At the Black Bull l shared a
pizza and great conversation with two
middle-aged Brits, cousins who were
doing the walk, three sections per
year.
As advised, Iavoided the sprawling
city of Richmond and pushed onto the
hamlet of Ingleby Cross, arriving Just
after dark. The 13 -mile stretch to
Great Broughton the next day looked
easy on the map. However the climb,
a rollercoaster ascent onto t lrra Moor
at 3800' never seemed to end.
Through a sea of heather and soggy
mush 1 came upon the Lord Stones
Cafe, a gem of a tea house in the mid-
dle of a barren, misty moor. .
Nothing great about Broughton, but
the Wainstones Hotel blessed me with
a hot bath and a spacious room. In
the morning they drove me back to
where I left the path and I was off on
the 19 -mile section to Glaisdale. The
route was very manageable with two
memorable markers. The lion's inn is
an amazing cavernous, ancient pub in
the middle of nowhere and bustling
with a boisterous lunch crowd. Fat
Betty, a large square stone at the half-
way mark welcomes 'coasters' to take
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and/or leave an offering of food.
The kind publican of the Horseshoe
Hotel in Glaisdale got all my gear dry,
even my shoes as he offered me an
educational tasting of fine English
ales.
The final day of fourteen -I'rn fee -
lin' good and lookin' for an ocean! At
Beggar's Bridge on the outskirts of
Glaisdale,1 watched a trout fisherman
flick flies into the River Eske which 1
followed east toward the sea:
Nineteen miles of sharp rocks,
muddy tracks and soggy bogs over.
four moors, one named U : ebarney
- the walk in the rain to Robin Hood's
Bay was emblematic of the two weeks
I'd spent on Wainwright's Coast To
Coast Walk. High spirits amid miser-
able conditions, first 1 spotted the
North Sea. Then the village. Then the
massive bay - Robin Hood's Bay. After
several hundred miles, there it was -
the North Sea receding in high tide.
The end.
No yips, yehs or high fives, I quietly
lost it looking over the sea from the.
cliff behind the Victoria Hotel. Mis-
sion accomplished. I collected my
signed certificate, bought the 'Coast
To Coast' coffee mug and a T-shirt to
boot and then celebrated a tad too
much at the iconic Bay Hotel. Sixty-
five years old today - still relevant and
entirely capable of coming up with a
reallybig, really bad idea.
For more informuion on
The Coast ib Goastst W '
go to maaadpenturecom
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