Sunday 1 June 2014

Day 7 - Braithwaite to Selby Train Station

It was a difficult morning and despite a good weather forecast we really needed to convince ourselves to get out of beds. Roy was still sleeping at breakfast and Tanya had a mental blockage to move any of her muscles. Full English was eaten in silence and only after getting the right amount of calories did we have the strength to pack up the van again and go to the meeting spot.

At the car park in Braithwaite we were met by:
Emily Ting (who came from London to walk with us for a day)
Danny Udall (voted Day's Chief Technical Solutions Engineer )
Tanya Earnshaw with her dog Pebbles
Alan Lee on bicycle who saw us on the local news and decided to join in
Brian Scott TPT Group Coordinator Bentley to Selby
Martin Boldan TPT Volunteer

On route we were joint by:
Trevor ad Gill Blythe (friends from the trip to Ethiopia)
Heather and Jake McGee


The first part of the Trail was along the beautiful New Union canal. The route was nice and easy and sunshine came out from time to time to remind us of the time of the year. The group was moving fast and in no time we were on the road and into the forest track, were we saw another kind of sleeper across the track. FourX had no problem dealing with this obstacle however we wondered out loud what was the reason for its existence?

  
From the map it looked as a big part of today's cycle route was going to be on the road and we decided to use the walkers part of the trail as much as we could. Walking through overgrown grass and narrow tracks was no problem for the FourX, which only proves how important are access points in the outdoors experience. The battery did very well and the ground was a soft break for feet from the hard tarmac.
 
 
 
We were going at a good pace again and just after 2pm we got to Snaith for our half way break. We stopped for tea and coffee and had lunch in an amazing little bakery called The Kitchen. The choices of salads, sandwiches and cakes were immense and temptation was to just buy the whole place or move to Snaith permanently. Here we also met Trevor and Gill. Trevor joined us for the rest of the day with Gill being on driving duty.


Our first obstacle of the day was a kissing gate on the walkers route of the trail. It was neither a disabled one nor did it have a Radar lock and for a split second we thought we will have to turn around. Fortunately our Chief Technical Solutions Engineer had watched similar gates being "sorted out" by motorcyclists many times and had a little something to surprise us. With Danny's knowledge and our determination we quickly went through the gate not leaving a single track of us ever being there.


 

During one of the brakes Emily shared with us a video of yesterday's BBC Look North news. We will try to get the link tomorrow.

Towards the end of the day with only 1.7 mile to spare we were met by Heather and Jake who brought us refreshments and walked with us for a short while. They set off to meet us on the Trail but went the other direction and we had to send "scouts" to track them down.

 
In the evening Tanya came across a strange discovery of a blister in a very mysterious place.... not normally associated with walking.

 

3 comments:

  1. Nearly there team Roy. Sooooooooooo proud. Respect to the blogger who seems to update when their aching body should be in bed. x

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  2. I read your post which was really good Waiting for next one
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