Keld to Middleton - 22 miles.
Gill Lord having been put in charge of weather yesterday and having been about as useless at it as Aly, Malcolm again had to resume responsibility for weather and made a commendable job of it, given the depressingly bad forecast. Instead of rain all day as forecast we got a mostly dry day with even the odd hint of sunshine. Also the wind, which had ripped through us yesterday, was a lot less severe.
Gary and Mary left us after breakfast and we left Keld via a beautiful little waterfall. We then had approximately 20 miles of mainly featureless moorland past the Tan Hill Inn (Englands highest pub) and through innumerable bogs. Malcolm fell over twice and would undoubtedly have received considerable sympathy from Aly if she had been able to stop laughing.
This was probably the least attractive day so far, though it was slightly redeemed towards the end by carpets of marsh marigolds and a super grassy track from the top of the moors down into Middleton in Teesdale. DIned in style at the 16-18 Cafe on 'Biker's Night' where we were made very welcome and had a great evening with the local hairy bikers!
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