Leicestershire Round - 2008

Day seven - Thursday - March 27th

 "The path through the woods is straight but usually very, very wet and muddy"
(Leics County Council booklet - The Leicestershire Round)

Movie: A very, very wet and muddy walk
 through Owston Woods

Sunshine, at last! So far we've walked through rain, high wind and snow showers keeping mostly dry but today, the weather is especially good for morale.
Today's section is the first one that Joseph and I had walked one wet Sunday in January and it was good to be walking it again in sunshine. For me, this is one of the things that made this journey so interesting, remembering previous walks with different companions along the way through the winter months. I'd wanted to complete sections of the walk before doing the big one mostly to get fit but also to re-assure myself of the route and by mid-March, a week before starting this walk, I'd completed the Leicestershire Round. There were only a few missed turns and slight detours on this, the main walk and it was good to see the changes from a stark winter landscape to an emerging verdant spring landscape.

Movie: Michelle goes mad

Movie: panoramic view

A farmer on a quad bike just outside Somerby chatted with us for awhile before making our way across the lush green rolling pasture land towards remote Owston. Another friendly farmer allowed us to go and look at a newborn foal in her shed in Withcote, nothing more really than a remote farm and hall which didn't look as if it had changed much, if at all in centuries. The near constant drone of aircraft noise overhead was a stark reminder though of which century we were in. 

On past Launde Abbey and Belton In Rutland, Allexton and up through the hills to Fearn Farm. Our last night. Quite sad in a way.

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