Day Eleven - Beginning Plan B

Saturday, 11th August 2018

 We were due to leave Broadings Farm today but our next stop, Burrs Country Park, cannot take us until Sunday so we asked if we could stay here an extra night and they agreed we could.

Needing a Saturday paper, we walked to a Spar shop, attached to a filling station, a couple of hundred yards down the road and, as the day was warm (ish) 17℃, we decided to extend our walk.

Ruswarp is the nearest village to our site and was just over a mile away and we knew the railway line ran through it as we often heard the trains, including steam trains. So we set off and, guess where the village, including railway line were?  At the bottom of a long and winding hill.  It was worth it though. It seems Mr Marple didn't get his hands on this village, with its old, but open, railway station and line.

We spent an hour there then made our way, slowly, back up the hill and so to our site.

The afternoon passed as it often does, sitting in the sun, reading and dozing.

We're ready for the off tomorrow.


Substantial Bridge over a river
Ruswarp Station

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