Coast to Coast

juli - augustus 2019

Val and Bob are hiking Wainwright’s 300 km Coast to Coast Trail, passing through three National Parks: the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors. Meer informatie

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- 11 aug. 2019 14:44
- 🌧 18 °C
- Hoogte: 62 m
- Engeland Fylingdales Robin Hood's Bay 54.435223, -0.53567254°26’7” N 0°32’8” W
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Day Off in Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby
11 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
We have been pretty lazy today but we needed the rest. So we took a planned day off and spent it wandering around Robin Hood’s Bay and Whitby. We didn’t walk to far to save our feet. We walked down to the beach at Robin Hood’s Bay, to finish the Coast to Coast properly. we took a bus to Whitby, which was very busy with a regatta happening and loads of tourists in town. Tomorrow we head to Scarborough by bus and then Berwick Upon Tweed by train and then Melrose by bus, to start our next hike - St Cuthbert’s Way. Apparently Scotland is having its wettest August on record with major flooding to the west and road and train closures this past weekend; so we’re very fortunate we were able to do the Coast to Coast with only rain, wind and wet feet to worry about. We’ll pray to St. Cuthbert for the next hike.Meer informatie
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Lorraine Davies Very pretty street
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Kim Holmes Looks like there are nice beaches in Scarborough!
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Kim Holmes Great beach!
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- 10 aug. 2019
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Hoogte: 54 m
- Engeland Fylingdales Robin Hood's Bay 54.434208, -0.5350354°26’3” N 0°32’6” W
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End of the Coast to Coast!
10 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Celebration of the end of the Coast to Coast
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Reiziger Looks like you had an awesome journey. Loved following you on you trip. Happy travels back home - see you next year.
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Lorraine Davies Wahoo!!!! Congrats to both of you.
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Reiziger Congratulations on completing another amazing Holmes adventure!
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- 10 aug. 2019
- 🌧 17 °C
- Hoogte: 165 m
- Engeland Hambleton District Chop Gate 54.388897, -1.14128954°23’20” N 1°8’29” W
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More Sights Along the Coast to Coast
10 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
Here are some more sights along the Coast to Coast.
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Reiziger Really what happened is after that meal and wine, Bob and Val decided to have a Schnauze. Lol.
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Reiziger You need to watch the Groods and you will know. Great family movie btw it’s our family favourite, watched probably 50 times
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Reiziger Wow UK has animals other then sheep and cows. That’s pretty much all we saw, and road squashed hedgehogs.
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Lorraine Davies Beauty!!!
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- 10 aug. 2019 09:31
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Hoogte: 102 m
- Engeland Scarborough District Egton 54.433922, -0.78898854°26’2” N 0°47’20” W
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Finish of the Coast to Coast Walk
10 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We had another long day of 31 km. We made it to the end at Robin Hood’s Bay around 5 pm. It was very windy all day. We didn’t have any rain though, until the last ten minutes into Robin Hood’s Bay when the sky opened up and it poured. We arrived at the B&B (the Villa) soaking wet and the owner dried us off with a towel with us still wearing our jackets. The Coast To Coast Trail today was a little frustrating as it seemed to turn south then north then south again even though the ocean is east. It climbed and then descended only to climb up again. It took a long time to get to the ocean even though we saw it three days ago. We haven’t yet been down to the beach and the official trail-end due to the bad weather, but we have the day off tomorrow and will do so then.Meer informatie
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Reiziger Congrats on completing the hike. The weather sure didn’t help! D.
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Reiziger Great looking walk about.
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- 9 aug. 2019 09:00
- 🌧 13 °C
- Hoogte: 378 m
- Engeland Ingleby Greenhow Cleveland Hills 54.415797, -1.1037554°24’57” N 1°6’14” W
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To Glaisdale
9 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
We started out today from the Buck Inn in Chap Gate. The walk started as a slog uphill but then it was pretty level after that. The weather was awful. It was driving rain with probably 60 km winds gusting to 80 km or so. Visibility was also bad as the mist was at our elevation. After a long trudge of 4 hours we arrived at the Lion Inn which is located on a road that cuts through the moor. It was great to stop and have lunch and take the wet stuff off. After lunch we set out again. The mist was still bad but the rain stopped and then it began to brighten. We had sun and warmth for the last few hours into Glaisdale where we are staying at the Red House Farm. Tonight we went for dinner with Andre and Ruth who are also traveling the Coast to Coast and staying at the Red House Farm. We got a cab to the local pub and back as it is a 20 min walk one way. It was a long 30 km today and our feet are sore from all the wet weather. Tomorrow is 31 km and is supposed to be wet again. It’s our last day on he Coast to Coast tomorrow.Meer informatie
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Lorraine Davies Gorgeous ❤️
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Lorraine Davies Lovely setting for a B&B
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Kim Holmes Difficult weather!
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- 8 aug. 2019
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Hoogte: 80 m
- Engeland South Lakeland District Grasmere 54.458687, -3.02469254°27’31” N 3°1’29” W
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Some interesting sites along the trail
8 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Some interesting sites I’ve seen along the way
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Kim Holmes Neat!
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Reiziger Amazing photos!! So interesting, and obviously you see so much more when walking!!
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- 8 aug. 2019 02:29
- 🌙 12 °C
- Hoogte: 167 m
- Engeland Hambleton District Chop Gate 54.38913, -1.14121754°23’21” N 1°8’28” W
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Along the Cleveland Hills
8 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
We spent the day walking along the Cleveland Way which goes up and down the edges of the Cleveland Hills. There was a nice stop along the way at Lordstones where we had a coffee. We met lots of friendly Yorkshire people interested in where we were from. The Cleveland Way is a very nice path and easy to follow with flagstones along most of the path, which was a welcome change. We were picked up at the Clay banks pullout and driven to the B&B in Chop Gate, which is 6 miles south. We’re now having a nice dinner. We’re finding the meal portions in the UK way too big for us. It’s become like the US. Tomorrow looks very wet and windy as rainy weather is blowing in and we have 30 km to do tomorrow.Meer informatie
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Lorraine Davies Beautiful 😍
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Lorraine Davies Well deserved! 🙃 😉
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Lorraine Davies Beautiful photo
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- 7 aug. 2019 00:34
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Hoogte: 72 m
- Engeland Hambleton District East Harlsey 54.39938, -1.30941754°23’58” N 1°18’34” W
Across the Vale of Mowbray
7 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
This section of the hike left Richmond and ended at Ingleby Cross. It was 35 km long and is the longest section we will be doing. This section is called the Vale of Mowbray and crossed from the Swale River valley to the Cleveland Hills. It was mostly flat with lots of farming. We saw fields of barley, wheat, corn, rapeseed and hay. The roads and paths were lined with beautiful trees like oak, willow, ash and maple. As has been the case all along, the Coast to Coast avoids large towns and takes the public bridle paths. Many of these paths are rough and consist of squeezing through a stile or going through gates and looking for where the grass or shrubs have been trodden down. The scenery was quite nice though and we had beautiful weather today.
We passed over the Catterick bridge and on the other side walked along the River Swale where the remains of a Roman embankment are still obvious. We also stopped at Bolton-on-Swale and visited St. Mary’s Church, where we saw the monument and plaque to Henry Jenkins, who reputedly lived to be 169 years old. We stopped at Danbe Wiske and had lunch and bought two ice cold cokes. When we got to Ingleby, we had to cross the A19 which is a divided expressway. There was no overpass or underpass! We took our time and dashed to the median and then across. We arrived at our B&B in Ingleby (the Ingleby House Farm) pretty tired. For dinner we went to the Blue Bell pub and saw a few of the other walkers we’ve run in to.Meer informatie
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- 6 aug. 2019
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Hoogte: 166 m
- Engeland Marrick 54.38167, -1.91363854°22’54” N 1°54’49” W
More sights on the way to Richmond
6 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Here are some more sights from today.
Lorraine Davies Love the cows, I think they are listening to you Val.
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- 6 aug. 2019 16:52
- ⛅ 21 °C
- Hoogte: 134 m
- Engeland Richmond 54.4048, -1.73435554°24’17” N 1°44’4” W
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On to Richmond
6 augustus 2019, Engeland ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
We walked from Reeth to Richmond today, which wasn’t too far (16 km) and only 260 meter ascent. The weather spit rain a few times, just enough to make us stop and put on our jackets before it quit. It’s amazing how the laws of probability work on the trail. You stop for a pee just as people show up. You stop to eat a snack in an inconvenient spot and then find a nice spot around the corner. You meet a traffic jam at the narrowest spot in a road. But the good luck balances the bad all in all. At one point today we met a sign saying the path was closed with no indication of where to go. So we decided to follow a bridlepath down to a paved narrow road which went past farm buildings. We got off track - luckily a farmer came out to tell us that we were about to go into a field with a bull. He set us on the right path, so that was an example of good luck, especially since Bob was wearing a red shirt; but it was a little awkward trying to figure out the way around old farm buildings, passing a dead sheep, avoiding stinging nettles and thistle. There are bridlepaths everywhere but most are badly grown over and poorly marked. I guess people don’t walk much anymore and certainly don’t take bridled horses. We got back on the Coast to Coast path at Marske, the ancient home of the Hutton family, with a big obelisk on the hill dedicated to a Hutton from 1816. The trail was great from there to Richmond. We arrived early (around 2:30) and had coffee at Costa, and visited a nice pet shop. Then we checked into our B&B (Williance House) - beautiful room with a window seat! Our limbs are tingling from going through stinging nettles today when we were detouring.Meer informatie
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Lorraine Davies Oops
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Lorraine Davies Lots of beautiful sights to see.
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