Shropshire Hills 2014 Day 4
Day 4 Sunday 27th July 2014
Due to some sunburn, and the coke I drank with
dinner last night, my sleep was rather restless. I headed up the Carding Mill Valley and, at
the junction to the Light Spout waterfall path, I stashed a cider in the stream
under a few rocks for later consumption.
I followed the same route that I had taken on the 20th of
August last year dropping down into Ratlinghope
And then walking over to Bridges, but this time I made the correct turn and carried on directly up to the Stiperstones.
And then walking over to Bridges, but this time I made the correct turn and carried on directly up to the Stiperstones.
According to
one of my walking guidebooks, there was a trail to Perkins Beach (not an actual
beach), but I searched and could not find it.
(While typing this up for my blog in 2020, and referring to an online OS
map, I see Perkins Beach is actually very close to where I was and, if I am
ever back at the Stiperstones, I may well walk there to see what it is).
Shepherds Rock |
Looking down toward Bridges |
After spending a little time at the
Stiperstones I headed back down to the Bridges pub for a cider. Inflation is crazy as this year it cost me
£3.50, a whopping 60p more than last year!
I sat outside near a brook to drink it, then
ordered another pint (a different variety) which was only £3. Okay, maybe I overreacted about the price
hike. I also ordered a ploughman’s
lunch: a large board with sourdough, 2 cheeses, grapes, apples, ham, pickled
onions, tomatoes and greens. Yum!!
Eventually I clambered back over the Mynd and
down to claim my stashed can of cider, only to discover it was missing. In fact, it wasn’t missing, just had been
found, drank, crushed, and discarded a couple of metres away. At least they could have cleaned up their
litter for the privilege of stealing my drink.
Due to the late lunch at the Bridges pub, I
did not have dinner that night. So, if
you thought it was going to be fish ‘n’ chips again, you were wrong (although I
would have guessed the same thing).
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