Day 0 What When Where and How

We are off again, on a holiday. A walking holiday of course. No beer tastes better and no Yorkshire pudding will be more appreciated than the ones we consume after a twenty kilometer walk through rain and mud.

If you hadn't guessed we are off to the land of country pubs, shopkeepers, dry stone fences and James Herriot.

Our  17 day "Coast to Coast" walk  covers 297 kms from St Bees in the Lake District, through the Yorkshire Dales to Robin Hood Bay (near Whitby) in the Yorkshire Moors. During the walk we will gain 9715 m ( hope we don't lose it all again in one go)

We are walking on our own, but it is a very popular route so we expect company. We have one suitcase being couriered to the end and one joining us each night. Our day packs will have wet and cold gear, lunch and 2kg of water.

We have pre-booked our accommodation for each night, mostly in village pubs or B and B's.

What to take?

Many choices are still to be made.

Where to go?

We fly into London then catch two trains to Carlisle, near the Scottish Border. Two days of rest then a train to St Bees.

When?

We start walking on 25 April and finish on 11 May. To show we aren't completely mad we will then spend a few days as tourists in York, then a week on the Isle of Man.