Welcome to our Coast to Coast Walk blog

Please join us in sponsorship as we walk across England in support of the Yes to Life charity. We are a mother (Jo) and daughter(Imogen), partner David and friend Vidya. We will be taking out our walking boots and traversing the hilly terrain of the English Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, and North York Moors on the Wainwright Coast to Coast walk. This walk is being undertaken in loving memory of Bryony Daly who passed away from cancer in 2004 aged 23 yrs. Her death was a tragedy and Yes to Life was founded to provide much needed support and information to cancer sufferers who have a right to know what their options for alternative care are. We will set out on our epic journey on June 7th, 2010 and hopefully find ourselves on the opposite coast 2 weeks later. Please support us by sponsoring the miles we will walk, the blisters we will get, the rain we will endure and the falling into bed that we will do. As we count the miles, it will be great to know that each new mile brings a new pound, dollar or euro to such a worthy cause! Please click on the link below to learn more about the walk:
www.wainwright.org.uk/coasttocoast.html

Monday, June 14, 2010

half way!!!

Well yesterday Jo, Imo and I clocked up 21 brave miles across the moors...most of them in slattering rain! I found out my waterproof trousers leaked...rather nasty! We all kept stiff upper lips and squelched on. We were happy to find a warm farmhouse that served delicious cappucinos and hot crumpets and tea cakes. After many wet and tiresome miles....finally the sun came out and the scenery was resplendant and beautiful. The last 3 miles on a tarmac road into Kirby Stephen were gruelling....the only way I made it was to listen to my ipod and find a rhythm and keep on marching....arriving was blissful. Kirby Stephen was a lovely little town and we found an Indian restaurant and chowed down.

Today we made it across rolling moors past the nine standards( a group of ancient cairns) trolling through thick bogs...trying to avoid falling in up to our necks.....past the grouse buts(where Prince Charles likes to go with his friends and shoot innocent birds who can't fly, past a black hut where apparently royal butlers serve lunch for the hunting party on silver platters......passing by a remote farmhouse with a lovely farmers wife who served us a devonshire cream tea right at 4pm. It was a shorter walk(thankfully) today and we rolled into keld at 5.30pm in record time and have had a restful evening.
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  1. Mimi KatzJune 14, 2010 at 1:55 PM

    what a totally amazing adventure - I hope you're taking lots of photos Vidya! thanks for writing.

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