Day 7 - Coast to Coast - Kirkby Stephen to Keld

Four milestones in one day

• crossing from Cumbria to North Yorkshire and entering the Yorkshire Dales National Park, 
• crossing the watershed between the Irish and the North Sea (Gill explained this really well, because a wee on the west side of the Nine Standards Rigg would end up in the Irish Sea, whereas turning one's stream to the other side would fill the North Sea).
• reaching 100 miles of walking, approximately halfway.
• crossing the spine of the country, the Pennines

Who's this swamp donkey?

However, the weather miserabled (rain and wind to complement the bogs), and Liz miserabled too because her foot hurt, and the Nine Standards, which demarcate the watershed,  were, frankly, miserable !!!

After weaving randomly across peat bogs, (David had the wrong route programmed into his GPS), we were relieved to arrive at Ravenseat Farm where we were invited out of the weather for tea and cake (delicious) and were reunited with some fellow walkers. Darth Vader on the right was the 9 year old son of the household who waited table admirably while his sister made the tea.

The last three miles were the best of the walk down the top of the Swale valley - if you know Lydford Gorge, you will be halfway to imagining the vista.