“May the wind…

…be at your back and may the ground rise to meet your feet”.

Today’s  briefing was pretty straightforward: 1) pick correct direction; 2) head for and over Windy Gap; 3) reach Glenbeigh and stop. (* SPOILER ALERT* did all three).

Heavy overnight night rain meant the early ‘walk alongside river’ was effectively ‘walk along riverbed’ but again so good to feel really outdoors as there was minimal road walking. Fields are obviously very wet and boggy

Not sure how they’re ever gonna get this one out.

After riverside/bed walking it was back up into the mountains. Again at times it felt as if I was in a Tolkien book

but again the views once on top were spectacular. Confession of an Idiot moment – spent five minutes harrumphing and finally settling on a bank whilst moving nettles and mud to one side only to realise that for once a bench was ideally situated 10 yards away. Whatever. The views whilst at Windy Gap looking back on where come from

and then looking forward to the next

That’s Dingle Bay in the background. The blue bit in the middleground is salty, briny and oceanic. I’m calling it the sea. So mini-Milestone is getting to the C just not the westernmost C part which is two further days and 33 or so miles. However it certainly calls for a celebration tonight…

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