Leicestershire Round - 2008

Day six - Wednesday - March 26th

 "I know a walk that'll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves... "
(A variation on Joe Pasquale's 'I've got a song that'll get on your nerves')



Movie: Strange customs on Burrough Hill

Our 'rest' day of a mere, piddling eight miles and boy was I glad of it with the novelty of the walk being undermined by a stinker of a cold and yet another chilly, overcast day. The footpaths were quite sticky now after all this rain and I know its going to be that way pretty much all the way home. However, this is beautiful countryside with each village conveniently strung out in easy 1.5 - 2 mile stretches on our easterly route.

Movie: Andrew's rucksack routine

And... we were heading for Somerby, a workaday village,about as middle England as you can get, I love it. Not only that but we would be staying in the Stilton Cheese Inn. But first, little Ashby Folville and on through Thorpe Satchville where we again made use of their seat amongst the Daffodils by the Millennium stone and the main Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray road, the A6047. I feel so close to home, which I am, in my other life with a car. What struck me about this place though is the sense that we were welcome . Most people passing by acknowledged us and said hello.

A short rest on an unusually calm Burrough Hill, apart from Joseph who still had the energy to run and hop about over the ramparts. I love this place, I'd love to camp here. 

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