Tarporley

Saturday 24 January 5.25 miles + planning
Hilary, Tracey, Carol + Jane

We were lucky with the weather again. It was a bit cloudy to start with, but as we walked it cleared and we even had some weak winter sunshine.

The ground was still a bit icy at the beginning of the walk.

The first golf club was easy to walk through as we followed the tarmac path. We had to careful when crossing the road as there was a blind corner.

Lost our way slightly, and talked to the farmer. Hilary pulled down his hat as he was being a bit cheeky about us being thick. We had stood by the water trough to have a drink and snack but had missed the stile as we walked away. The fields were quite wet in the area.

Eaton is very pretty with its thatched cottages.

The path then led up though a tree lined passage, with ancient hedges lining either side.

We were directed across the golf course in the walk but the path had been redirected along the edge of golf course, but once again it got confusing and we wandered through the trees, there was no obvious exit so I am not sure we went the right way.


We realised that we were nearly back in Tarpoley and we hadn't eaten our lunch, we sat on a bank under a hedge - probably hawthorn as there were spiky twigs that we sat on. Tracey had the right idea, she had a 'sit-on' cushion - a bit of protection!

The tea shop we were going to stop at was full so we had a wander down the street. We ended up in the Old Fire Station chocolate shop. Very nice carrot cake!

We spent quite a while in the cafe as we did our planning meeting as well.Ben Nevis here we come!!