Cleehill to Ludlow

Day 3 Cleehill to Ludlow     7 miles  ;   18 stiles

Just a little about the house we are staying in - each bedroom has an en-suite bathroom which is great.  There are no showers as such, just shower attachments over a bath.  Tim is 6’4” and appears to have the smallest bath!  But - today we found him a bath.

Tim's new bath!

Today was a short walk into Ludlow, and mostly downhill, having done a lot of uphill yesterday.  However we still managed to take wrong paths, it should have been very straightforward in that we were following the Shropshire Way paths, but it went wrong somehow!  Anyway we found our way through, and the paths were not too bad today.  Carol and Phil had walked back from Ludlow and found us about 1/2 hour away from the end having found the paths.  We found the bus near the railway station, then we changed our shoes and had about an hour’s wander around Ludlow.  We found some quirky shops -

Fork handles?

A bridge somewhere!

After the wander round Ludlow we drove to a village not too far away for lunch, but the sat-nav took us through an archway that was barely wide enough for the bus!  So well done Carol for steering it through and to Phil for guiding also.  Having negotiated the arch we were supposed to go over a bridge, but this had been closed for some time due to an accident, so we had to drive a fair way round to get to the road we wanted.  We arrived a little late at the pub called the ‘The Boot’ at Orleton.  We had a first class lunch and of course the boys sampled the ale  - including ‘Hobsons best’; Hobsons ‘twisted spire’; and Hobsons ‘old prickly’ then from the wye valley brewery ‘ Hereford pale ale’ and ‘butty bach’ - and Lyn sampled the local cider which she said was really good.

John talking to the sheep!

Back to the house reasonably early to sample Lyn's other cake, a rather tasty ginger one.  The boys had games of boules and tennis.  Pat and I did another food order with Sainsburys and I was on cooking duty with Jacqui and Tim; we had jacket potatoes with lots of salad and bits and pieces followed by marmalade bread and butter pudding - we didn't have a pudding at lunch time!