A big breakfast … Cereal, porridge, bacon and scrambled egg :-). We were packed and ready to go at 9:45 am, just after a rain shower. We walked back up to the Roman Army musuem, which opened at 10am… We spent an hour and a bit looking around, had a coffee / tea, then set on our way, with about 10.5 miles on the schedule for today.

At first the weather was with us, we went past Thirlwell Castle, had a minor moment of losing the Pennine Way, got ourselves corrected, got up and over a golf course and marched on.  We made good progress, until we reached Blenkinsopp Common. It had just started raining, and we then found the common to be very soggy, which of course slowed us down. The rain stopped, and we had kind of dried off, when it started again. This time we took some refuge under a beech tree until the worst passed…. Even saw some blue sky. The sun was, good, we dried again…

We lost direction slightly, but again recovered, only to get slowed in boggy conditions. This was pretty much the state of the walkway then for the rest of the walk. The weather had one last hit for us, about 1 mile from our destination, the heavens opened and gave us a soaking :-(. I have to say at this point I was all for having a full on tantrum about the whole thing…. Anyhow, we made our way down to Knarsdale, and to the Kirkstyle Inn. It was July 1st today… But weather was such that they had a fire going! We took our sodden boots off and put them in front of the fire. The food was good, plenty of gluten free options for me :-). Just before 8pm we were picked up and driven to the B&B, and the drying out process started all over again.