Peak District

Up nice and early – well 7.00am and sat in the shower for ages – I had a heavy head!

Drove up to Peak District – near Ashbourne, Derby which is close to where we went for Paul’s stag weekend I think.

Arrived at 10.00am and Lewis was 5 minutes behind us, parked up and walked through and you could see it was getting busy

The National Park was amazing – it really was. Very beautiful landscape and we walked along side the river.

Tash had a walking tour outlined so we tried to follow that – it wasn’t the best and we then just wandered along and let Bess off her lead whenever we could and caught up with things.

The first part was okay, we made one error but just carried along the river and after 5 miles stopped for lunch at a village and Lewis treated us to an ice cream.

Back on the walk we then went up the dale – that was hard work. I’ve been okay up to then but this was hard for me, everything was hurting.

Bess ran off at one point and evaded Lewis – all a bit worrying but she came back from another direction – stupid dog!

We then also took a wrong turn and walked down a very dangerous slope to the road and then realised we needed to go back up it! Great!!

We then made it to the summit and it was well worth the effort – it was lovely. But the clock was ticking as Lewis had to be back to meet his friends so we didn’t hang about and got back down the hill to the river and back home to the car

Nearing the entrance it was getting rammed with people – none of whom seemed to speak English. It really felt we were in Croatia or Poland or somewhere, it was so odd not to hear hardly any English voices. Didn’t bother me, it was fascinating though. Made it through the throngs of people to see a huge jam of cars – it was mad

Made our way out and said our goodbyes to Lewis, went one way to get home and soon turned around as there was no way of getting past the queues and then it was a 2 hour drive home.

Collapsed on the sofa once home and then had nice dinner

Watched a film in the evening after a bath to relax my aching muscles

Didn’t do much else, couldn’t be bothered

Absolutely knackered!