Day 16 Washford to Cannington

Today we walked up and over the Quantock Hills. We set off early as we had a long walk today. Our first stop was Williton to get food for lunch. We have to plan our food stops carefully as there are no other options along this route. We picked up lunch and as there was a coffee shop too we stopped for coffee. Then it was off on our walk. Quite easy walking at first then we hit a navigational issue, our map said we had to walk straight through a farm and I mean straight through, I didn’t like that idea, especially as the farmers dogs didn’t seem to like the idea either. So I decided that we should cross a railway line (there was a pedestrian crossing) and dash along an A road ( it was very busy and there was no pavement), John was not happy with that idea, but we did it and we survived. After that we were back to nice country walking again we did pass a few farms but no angry dogs. Then we passed through a forest area, which was very nice and had a picnic area where we stopped for lunch. We had just settled down to eat our lunch when a heavy rain shower came over, but we had our waterproofs on and the shower didn’t last long so it was fine. Sandwiches were a bit soggy though. Then we needed to navigate to our accommodation for tonight across more farmland. This time we had to navigate round cattle, then when we finally made it out of the field we found a sign that said the farm had redirected the path to avoid the cattle field, but the same sign wasn’t at the other end of the field when we entered, or it might have been blown away. It is rather windy. Anyway we have made it to the Malt Shovel Inn in Cannington and to my great joy the room has a bath. The first thing I did was take a nice soak in the bath. Now we will seek some refreshments at the InnRead more