Rose boys walking diary: Stage 5

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