the first stint today was a bit of a rude (re)awakening to what hills feel like. it's been quite a while since there've been serious hills one after the other. unsurprisingly my sister, seven years my senior and a smoker, could really feel them. saying that we were equally glad to stop for a cream tea at the first signs of a cafe.
carrying on to beer and seaton, more hills were encountered. and the rain started. stopping for mash with cheese and beens (stupidly simple but brilliant to see on a cafe menu) we hoped it would let up. it didn't.
the next leg, to the dorset border and lyme regis, spanned seven miles, predominantly in a beautiful woodland on a historic landslide. the rain had made it quite slippy underfoot and particularly trecherous with the roots, which there were lots of:
but it also made all the ferns and ivy and everything all shiny and pretty:
i think i lost count of my uses of the words 'lush', 'green' and even 'verdant'.
jin x
547 miles in total now, giving my sister the taste of a 17 mile day. only 83 miles to go now.
wow that really is some lush green verdant foliage!
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