We've been so lucky with dry days for walking up until now. No doubt this will change and then we'll see how committed we are to our walking programme, but Andrea wasn't feeling well today and still soldiered on, so that's pretty impressive!
This was the view from above Avonliffe. If you look closely you can see the cafe by the bridge that has great toasted crumpets and stuff.
Today's drama was an unpleasant encounter with cows and dogs. In a contest, I think we preferred the earlier encounter with the electric fence!
The drama went like this: Our path to a gate was blocked by a herd of cows and while we were mustering courage to walk past them, we spotted a dog walker in the field, so decided to wait until they had passed through the gate. But no, the fates were frowning, because then another 2 dogs arrived, with owners, and then all 3 owners and dogs stopped in the field to chat. This is all fine and friendly, but we were already worried about walking past these cows, and now the dogs were bouncing around the cows and making them jumpy and nervous. Well, as a townie, this was just terrifying for me. If these cows decided to move en masse, then their only way to go was straight at us in the field just in front of them! Andrea had her walking stick at the ready to defend us, and I was staying right with her (I was actually staying with her stick, but that was attached to her, so...).
It wasn't pretty:
Us: "There's a sign on the gate saying that dogs should be on leads"
Dogwalker 1: "No, dogs shouldn't be on leads"
Dogwalker 2: "They're a different breed of cows"
Us: "Well I don't know about cows or dogs; I just know that I'm scared!"
The conversation then ended because we had reached the gate and made a swift exit before the frisky dogs and cows stampeded!
Next week we'll be taking a different route to avoid both cows (any/all breeds) and unfriendly dog walkers!
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