Stage 5 - the last day!

Goodrich to Ross-on-wye

Today we left our hotel genuinely sorry to leave, it was, by public opinion, the best inn so far! But leave it we did and soon we were in the rhythm literally. Gus remembers a surprising amount of chess lyrics! We walked over Kerne bridge and up a hill where there was a crashed car that caused us great difficulty! Then we walked down a hill, walked up a hill, walked down a hill and gus ran up another hill! However, at the top of this hill was an iron age fort/village! Only we weren't able to see it, we just walked past it! What a let down! We then walked down the hill and into ross on Wye, at which point Hamish was called away to overlook our extension plans, conveniently disabling our navigator. However, lucky scouts has trained me well and I was able to get us there with my superb navigational skills. But would you believe it! Later, once we had all checked in and Gus's had settled down in front of the TV Hamish and I went for a walk and he got us lost again! Lucky I was able to direct him and he even said ''yes boss" to me! (Make note of this, this is my virtual and thus uneraseable record as he assures me it won't happen again!) Hamish didn't think the hotel would be up to scratch as it was the only one availabe, but we are in the midst of luxury now and awaiting a beautiful dinner! Today we walked for 4h and covered a distance of 10 km! Yesterday we walked for 6h and covered 12km!(forgot to put that in yesterdays blog!) Overall we covered a distance of 55km and clocked up a walking time of 21h and averaged a speed of 3mph! Tomorrow we bus to Gloucester and take a train home. Although the going was tough, we tough got going and I am sad to see this holiday go, and not just because of school! Only one more post!
See you soon
Oscar

The victory pose!

Chilling out at the hotel

On the road to Ross on Wye

A vineyard! In Wales/England!

So close!

A crashed car

A pretty tree

Woops, Mac and cheese isn't a burger!

Stage 4 of the Wye valley walk

Symonds yat to Kerne bridge
Just too clear up any confusion about the jump in the stages, we walked stage 2 and took a taxi through 4. Now that the confusion has cleared I'll talk about my day! Today we woke up, not entirely sorry to see our inn go, for such a high rating, it didn't seem quite as luxurious as I had hoped! So we set off heading up to a local viewpoint where we were able to see our entire walk! (We thought it was ludicrous that we would be able to walk all that way, but we did it and had time to spare!) We walked down to the river Wye and walked along the river bank into a field full of sheep and pheasants, and I can now confirm that pheasants do go gobble gobble! Then we made our way to a disused railway bridge. It broke a couple of years ago and now it is just a temporary bridge that looks like a box with scaffolding around it. We then walked on, Gus and I pining for lunch, and we came to a field. We couldn't go under it we couldn't go over it, uh oh! We had to go through it! It was full of murderous looking cows though, and it seemed to us at the time that they were slowly making our way towards us and giving us the evil eye! But it was alright though, we had voted that Gus was the one to be left behind in case of a cow attack and Gus, well, didn't really have a choice! We stopped, Hamish finally listening to our pleas for food and rest, in the next field. However the inhabitants (sheep) got closer and closer until we were forced to move! We finally arrived at Kerne bridge and then walked down to the local village of Goodrich, named after the local castle. Our inn was lovely and we had a good dinner and fitful sleep, ready for the day ahead!

A log full of coins

Breakfast

The view from the viewing platform

A log full of coins!

I have slain a Basilisk!

The viewing platform

The viewing platform

Some paddle boarders passing under the railway bridge

Goodrich castle