Day 14 - Richmond to Oaktree Hill

We get away to our traditional 10am start.  Why can we never get away early?  The weather is fine, and at couple of stages the day nudges into hot.  Fiona even puts on her sun hat and suntan lotion.  A positively shocking turn of events.  We walk along country lanes, past recently harvested fields of wheat.

At one stage we encounter a diversion, telling us to walk a couple of kilometres out of the way to bypass a construction site.  Fiona knows that this will be her longest walking day to-date, and isn't going to have anyone make it even longer.  She leads the way in reclaiming an (almost) English women's right to ramble over the countryside where ever they like; bulldozers and land barons be damned!

"But I didn't see any sign officer"

Fortunately, because it is Sunday, there isn't any construction going on anyway.  We also get to walk through some woodland, and increase our grey squirrel count for the trip from two to five.  A long day, and we have sore feet and legs now, but otherwise all is good.  The guidebook describes today's section as the low point of the Coast-to-Coast, but we enjoyed it. 

Distance walked today: 26km