In order to make sure that we're able to participate in long hikes when we go to Canada, we decided that we should make sure we do plenty of walking beforehand. However, the weather being what it has recently, these have largely been soggy affairs, resulting in Tassy questioning the waterproof qualities of her walking boots!
For the latest of these aquatic adventures, we decided to involve some up/down-hill and not just along, as this is likely to be the bit that results in pain & suffering if unpractised. So we decided to do a walk up Roseberry Topping and along to Captain Cooks Monument, on the top left corner of the N York Moors. This was a walk we had done once before on a VERY cold, wet & windy February day. However, despite being mid-July this time, both the cold, wet & wind were all present in disturbingly similar amounts!!
As before, we all nearly got blown off the top, and took brief shelter in the lee of the hill to drink some tea before continuing (Mikey and his brother Tom, who accompanied us, are both Tanin addicts and required a fix!).
Much as wet walks are fun, we decided to cut it short by a third in favour of getting back to the ice cream shop before it closed, for a very fine '99' (who says you can't eat ice cream in the pouring rain?!) and several quarters of various boiled, sugared sweet-shoppy goodness, which they also sold inabundance (we plumped for dolly mixture and strawberry bon-bons).
All in all, a fine walk!!
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