Haslington

Saturday 28 February 7 miles + detour
Tracey, Donna, Hilary and Jane

We woke to a grey sky and there was drizzle as we set out in the car - but we didn't get wet! It was great to be out in the fresh air.

It was a fairly flat path with quite a few stiles and some metal kissing gates.

We saw some beautiful snowdrops in a very attractive garden at the beginning of the walk.

The walk was cold in places when the landscape was more open and we needed hats and scarves but we also got warm in the more sheltered parts.

As ever some parts of the path were very easy to follow but other bits were not so obvious!!

We eventually realised that we had made a detour so we had to walk back a little bit but managed to take a different route to return to the original path. This is where we saw the cows - not so pretty when you are in the same field but amazing once you have climbed the stile and are in a different field, then they look beautiful!! There were the five cows in a row in another field, they were long haired and could have been highland cows. The babies looked cute.

There was a small tea shop in Haslington so we managed tea/coffee and cake. We found a leaflet of the walk we had just done in the shop. It said to 'be careful' as it was a bit confusing just in the place where we went wrong!