I have walked 500 miles
- and I can't get The Proclaimers out of my head!
Other tunes that keep selecting themselves from the jukebox inside my head are The Happy Wanderer (I love to go a-wandering ...) King of the road (Trailers for sale or rent, Rooms to let 50 cents) Rory Gallagher (Don't know where I'm going, don't know where I've been, but I havn't seen my baby since I don't know when) and most bizarrely the theme tune to The Littlest Hobo! This was a sixties program (in the style of Fury and Champion the Wonderhorse) in which an Alsatian dog appears from nowhere does a good deed and then moves on to an adventure in the next town.
Although I have iPod on my iPhone and carry a small radio I have never once listened to them whilst walking. I prefer to listen to the sounds around me. However my radio is used every night and every morning in the tent.
I left Buxton via Long Hill and then walked down tiny country lanes to Combs. Curlews and peewits were all around. More lanes took me to Milton and I headed North up a green lane ... to get hopelessly lost in fields of sheep. Again! I keep vowing to avoid tiny paths over fields (since I only have printouts from a 1:50,000 map) but fall into the same trap time and again.
The problem is trying to spot a stile like this
from a hundred yards away. My binoculars have been invaluable to me here, and reading signs from a distance or spotting the path ahead. They also helped me to differentiate a chough from a jackdaw, or a linnet from a chaffinch.
From Chinley another narrow lane took me to the A624 and I went straight over to join The Pennine Bridleway.
This took me straight to my campsite at Hayfield.
Last night - pie and peas + Marston's Pedigree. Tonight -salmon with crushed new potatoes, green beans, mange tout and asparagus + Thwaites beer. No competition!
I should have drunk orange juice!
Impressive progress, Pete.
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