Some hope...

Hope the village, hope the van keeps going and more..

Paul and Carolyn's walking club decided that it is not necessary to do a different walk each week. There is a lot to be gained by revisiting the same walk. There will always be more to see and experience. Having agreed on that, we decided to revisit the old drovers inn (and the associated walk) in Hope Valley.

You may remember that last time we had difficulty locating the village of Hope. Not so this time. We learned from our previous mistakes and found our way there quite easily.

We didn't even need this sign post.

On our way we discovered that the callow (the ancient drovers 'signpost') was visible from at least ten miles away. It is an impressive marker.

Bromlow Callow at the top of the hill guiding the drovers towards the markets of the WestMidlands

 We set off on our walk which circles the callow and enjoyed terrific views all around.

View towards Wales.

Finally we crossed the dangerous road between us and the approach to the callow.


Its not really very busy, although we did see one car.

 

Paul led the way up the path. It was quite dark on this side of the hill.

And we were in.

Hard to resist this upward shot of the pine trees.

 We enjoyed the walk despite a slight deviation (we lost our way) towards the end. We walked 5.79 miles measured on my Endomondo fitness phone app. That's a long way for us and we were definitely ready for a drink and dinner at The Stables Inn.

Still starting

Regarding the van. It continues to start well following the work done two weeks ago. We are definitely hopeful that it is fixed for good.

We are taking the van to its first music festival next week. We will be spending two nights sleeping in it!



Hopefully some of these musicians will be performing at the festival.
From left to right Harry, Nick, Andy, Rob, John.

Also, I have ordered a new sleeping bag from Amazon. I hope it arrives in time and I hope I will be warm at night...