We went through the town of Ironbridge, home of the worlds first iron bridge. Will and I jumped up and down on the apex to test the strength of the bridge. Seemed sturdy. As we got to the other side we found someone in the middle of a formal video recording with the bridge in the background, so we were probably in the the frame!
A Ploughman’s lunch. Salad, tomatoes, pickle, beets, pickled onion, apple, cheese, couple bites of pork pie, bread and butter. So tasty!
My first scotch egg of the trip, bought from a local farm shop on our route.
Hiking in a beautiful gorge of Dovedale late one evening. A truly nice area, though the fading light and ample rain put a damper on it for us.
A decorative wall near where we turned off towards Edale. The recommended route in our guidebook doesn’t go to the start of the Pennine Way, but we wanted to actually hike the whole Pennine, so we took the alternate.
We ended up in a very nice pub on a rainy Saturday afternoon, which filled with football fans watching the national tournament championship game. Will knows about as much about pro sports as I do – so not much. But boy, this ‘trio sausage’ dish sure was good with a big heap of cheesy mashed potatoes underneath.
Descending to the town of Castleton which was full of weekenders from the nearby cities of Manchester and Sheffield.
A 3000 year old stone head!
Having a pint of cider in Edale. The next morning a large group of men started chatting with us at breakfast and were very excited for us starting the Pennine. Letting us know how difficult it would be, etc. One of them had hiked it in the early 80s and gave us grave warnings. Often times it’s more graceful to just let people talk, rather than letting them know our own hiking history, and that we’ve already come about 600 miles to get here!
C.Las 
Great pictures! Hope you’re enjoying our countryside, lovely to see photo’s of Will!!
Yes, I love following your progress and the photos . You are doing ok keep it up.
Yo dude, it’s Erin, yer old Habitat pal. Just realized you have a blog! Important things in this post:
a) a cat
b) WHAT IS A SCOTCH EGG. DO I HAVE TO BE IN EUROPE TO ACQUIRE ONE
c) Is that a Mars Bars juice box?!?!? What’s the shipping to San Diego going to run?
Okay that’s all. Havefunbye!
It’s a delicious wrap of pork sausage around a hard boiled egg, and fried. It’s scrumptious. I first had one as a child at the North Carolina Sheepdog Trials.
Yeah, the Mars Milk thing was just for kicks, it’s a chocolate milk, but worse. You’re not missing much on that one 😛
All the best.