Today I am walking from Fountain Abbey which is a National Trust propety and deer park near Ripon.
The roads leading to the abbey from my Cottage were fantastic, I've not enjoyed myself on a bike so much fur ages and that is dispite the wet roads.
I arrived at 09:20 for the 10:00 start but when I arrived I found a text message saying that breakfast was running late and that they were aiming to get to the abbey for 10:20 - d'oh
In the end everyone turned up by about 10:45 so we didn't get walking until about 10:50 and the problems didn't end there.
The route we were walking was also the route being used by a charity run which would have been ok if not for the seven stone foot bridges which could only take 1 person at a time.
In order to get across without holding up the runners we had to wait for a gap and then run across the bridge which given most of us had heavy boot's, bags and walking sticks was a very funny sight. Funny but slow, with 15 of us waiting to cross like that I reckon we only covered about 2 miles in the first 1.5 hours.
The poor diane fell over in some very nasty looking mud and got caked in it
It was 1 problem after another for the whole walk but it was alot of fun.
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