Day Five - Sunday Lunch and Preparations for Moving

Sunday 5th August 2018

No special plans for today.  We had booked our Sunday lunch at The Ferry House Inn which turned out to be quite good.  We went there early as we hoped to walk along the banks of the River Trent but unfortunately there was no access to the path in that area.  We had an early lunch.

Hot again, in fact hottest day of the week so we returned to Acorn Wood and sat in and out of the sun for the rest of the day, in between making ready to move on to Whitby tomorrow.

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