“In England there is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” -English saying
So we started where we stopped the day before in part because both Rich and I wanted to get pictures of the statue of Edward the First who died at Brugh by the Sands (pronounced locally as Bruff be Sand….and I thought Blountville as Blountville was bad long ago) so here’s the photo a departed King Edward:
Our starting point was the Greyhound Inn which serves an outstanding pint of Guinness, I should know, I had two yesterday lol.
As we left town we passed St. Michaels church built in 1200
Our merry band; Mike and Melanie Salvino from Memphis, who some might recall I met in Spain last spring on my Camino, Rich and yours truly visited the church yesterday afternoon after my two pints of Guinness. Fortunately I did not burst into flames so God must like Guinness too lol. Anyway, we joined a tour in progress and found out when the “reavers” (raiders) from Scotland approached, the people from the village would gather inside the church, along with their livestock, bar the doors a notch arrows. Mike told me the this church was the model for the castle piece in the game of chess and I bit until Melanie called him on it.
So, we leave Bruff be Sands this morning and followed our route through a maze of lanes and fields as shown below:
As one might surmise from the photos it was wet. I’m not yet sure if this is standard or a function of the season but it seems to rain in England almost every day the only variables being timing and intensity. So part way through the day a light mist came up with gusty winds and I put the rain cover on my pack.
As we passed through one of several kissing gates (see below) my watch told me showers were on the way and I barely got my rain gear on in time.
After a long wet day. During which we walked along or above the river Eden where we saw a pair of wild swan and finished at Carlisle cathedral.
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