Friday the 13th, and the final day for walking. A nice breakfast, we set off on our final day… 19 miles scheduled for today. We walked down through Graisdale, stopping off at the Beggars Bridge. Apparently built by a Thomas Ferris in 1619. Ferris was a poor man who wanted to wed the daughter of a wealthy local squire. In order to win her hand, he planned to set sail from Whitby to make his fortune. On the night that he left, the river was high after rain, and he was unable to make a last visit to his intended. He eventually returned from his travels a rich man and, after marrying the squire’s daughter, built Beggar’s Bridge so that no other lovers would be separated as they were. Well done Thomas.

Up through some woods we headed towards Egton Bridge, passing the inn the Swiss Ladies stayed at the night before. It was then onto Grosmont… Grosmont has the North Yorks Moor steam railway running through it, and as luck would have it, there were a couple of trains in station. Brilliant. We stopped and watched. Then it was the long steep climb out of Grosmont. We had heard a few walkers talk of the climb out of Grosmont with some trepidation… but after starting this walk in the Lake District, this was no problem for me and Tricia, we were walking fit and we just marched up :-).

We carried on through Littlebeck, and down toward ‘Falling Foss’ … we stopped and had lunch here. A pleasant stop… but I was starting to weary of walking and just wanted to finish the walk now. Up and out across Sneaton Moor, it was a long drag, heading towards Hawsker, but never really seeming to get nearer. Eventually we reached the coast… hoorah, and circled south along the coast towards Robin Hoods Bay. We arrived around 5pm’ish, and walked down to the front where we were greeted by Pat and Clive who had driven all the way up to meet us at the end. Prosecco followed. 🙂

We walked back up and found the guest house. After showers it was off for a meal at the Wayfarer. A wonderful meal with Pat & Clive, and we were joined at the end by Sybille and Cornelia. We bid our farewells, they were both off early in the morning.

We had done it… 192 miles plus all the detours and off C2C trail walking… I was tired and footsore :-).