It took a flurry of emails, and nearly drove me crazy, but I believe I have made reservations at farm B&B's and pubs and even a yurt, for 21 successive nights strung across the dark part of the map near Scotland like a thin line of Christmas lights.
Yes, twenty-one nights. That's how long we plan for this walk to take. Twelve or thirteen days is traditional. That's the way Alfred Wainwright, (a guy who evidently didn't much like his job or family life and spent a lot his time tramping in the rain across northern England and eventually wrote the book on the C2C, ) that's how Alfred suggested doing it. But….we're on vacation! And being foreigners, we might find it a fascinating novelty to look at wet sheep.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but my husband is retired. Actually, he's retiring. Again. This would be the third time but who's counting? And since his work involved a fair amount of sitting, he thinks it would be a fine thing if retirement involved walking. Rather leisurely walking by some measures.
Anyway, I imagine that people who walk it in twelve days have something to prove. We don't.
Yes, twenty-one nights. That's how long we plan for this walk to take. Twelve or thirteen days is traditional. That's the way Alfred Wainwright, (a guy who evidently didn't much like his job or family life and spent a lot his time tramping in the rain across northern England and eventually wrote the book on the C2C, ) that's how Alfred suggested doing it. But….we're on vacation! And being foreigners, we might find it a fascinating novelty to look at wet sheep.
And not to put too fine a point on it, but my husband is retired. Actually, he's retiring. Again. This would be the third time but who's counting? And since his work involved a fair amount of sitting, he thinks it would be a fine thing if retirement involved walking. Rather leisurely walking by some measures.
Anyway, I imagine that people who walk it in twelve days have something to prove. We don't.
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