Well, I think both of the churches at beverley are lovely, and the durty nellies place (call the white horse) is still going and still has gas lighting! I couldn't believe it when I saw it first. It looks like it's been decorated by a vampire; all old, junky looking stuff.
The walk went well. I really enjoyed it, and found it very satisfying. I felt like I'd conquered the world at the end and wanted congratulating by somebody. Bushcraft-wise I didn't get up to all that much because I had everything I needed with me. I stopped to look at plants and pick up a few seeds from them, and enjoyed sleeping out alone in a field with only animal noises and a mass of stars for company. The sky was so clear I almost couldn't believe it. I saw two owls and heard another one at night killing a rabbit, I think. The photos will take time because I'm old fashioned and use a film slr.
East Yorkshire has been my home my whole life, and I thought I wouldn't see much new walking through it, but I was totally wrong. The villages on this trail; Lockington, Scorborough, etc, were all beautiful. The view across the vale of York from the edge of the dales is amazing: you can see 20 miles over your whole field of view.
I learned a lot from it, too, about how little I really knew before about this sort of trip, and about how to do it differently in future. Most of all, I'll plan better. I couldn't find my sun hat because I'd left it too late getting ready, and missed out on sleep through work in the days before, which caught up with me. The first half of the journey had no shops, pubs, or anything, which also caught me out. I ended up taking some fig rolls and chocky biscuits from a nice old guy, who filled my water bottles (he lives in Bainton, and has a sign outside his house saying that he sells honey). I also did the classic thing of taking too much stuff. I don't have scales at home and packed in a hurry, so apart from leaving out excess stuff I had no way to limit weight. Also, the bag always feels light at the start! When I got back I weighed it in the chemist: 10.60kg. I carried 4L of water most of the time, and needed it, so make that 15kg. Once everything's clean I'm going to pack the non-perishables in my bag, to make the next trip easy to prepare for even at short notice, and I'll start with my sun hat.
The weight of the bag was a shocker, to be honest. My sleeping bag is only 1kg, bivy bag weighs nowt, and had a tarp instead of a tent. I didn't take much clothing or (any) food, though I had unused waterproofs. The only obviously surplus things were two collins gem books and my camera. The billy can was light and the gas stove normal sized.
I'm definitely leaving the stove behind on my next short hike, and I'd remind everybody else that's as daft as me, to keep your bag extra-light when you need to carry extra water.
