Blakey Ridge

Blakey Ridge

Coast to Coast Day 10

Breakfast was a lengthy process but not as bad as for the lady who waited 40mins for beans on toast...they must have 'bean' very special! If she'd had waited much longer they'd have been a has 'bean'! 

In true Wainright style we walked away from the direction we were ultimately heading...with The Lion Inn in view for a good hour as we doubled back on ourselves. More moor walking followed much to Colin's delight...Richard even started to be able to tell the difference between different colours of heather, not an ability to be proud of! The bleak monotony of the moorland was interrupted momentarily by the 'leaving stone', Colin finally got to put his Jaffa Cakes there ready for the next Coaster & he collected a tired looking cereal bar.

Before long we arrived in Glaismere & found a suitable cafe for lunch, Ste Henderson met us there & we all looked forward to the short walk into Grosmont. Fortunately this was a short walk as it took over an hour in the cafe to be served.

Just after leaving much to our amusement & confusion an American lady stopped us; we initially thought she was going to ask for directions but it turned out she just wanted to quote lots of statements at us from her C2C book! Being as adept as we now are at understanding C2C language we pointed her in the direction of the cafe we'd just left & she wandered away very happy.

We set off for our shortest afternoon to date after a photo shoot on Beggers Bridge courtesy of Ste. Crossing the stepping stones in Egerton Bridge saw Colin being very brave & star jumping on one! 

We arrived in Grosmont to see one of the steam engines in the station and just before a shower set in we managed to take some pictures and get ourselves comfortable in our second tea-room of the day. Ste commented later that he enjoyed our 'tea room hiking' style!

Our B&B was an amazing building built in the 1800's but it was very tired & a recent attempt to redecorate it failed miserably to bring it into the 21st Century. All that said the stain-glass windows were very pretty & the mirror on the stairs was HUGE.