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Coast to Coast 2 [2018] : Day 1 – King’s Head

[originally posted in 2018, I’m reposting these posts in August 2024 with the broken image links fixed. I apologise for my youthful inability to detail with more information what real ale I had, but since this is before my Untappd stage I’m not able to check what I had. Also, I realised that I had forgotten to add the photo of my fish and chips. I fully accept that aside from my two loyal blog readers (who I didn’t have at the time) a photo of food is already of limited interest, but a photo from years ago where I’ve forgotten everything about it is of even less interest…. However, for my own archiving purposes I felt the need to add this]

We decided we’d try somewhere to eat on the evening of day 1 in Kirkbymoorside, and we went to the King’s Head which is an historic former coaching inn. There was a friendly welcome from the member of bar staff and she politely mentioned that we only had a short time to order food.

Liam often orders the ridiculously expensive pint of orange juice and lemonade, and although the member of bar staff offered an alternative he wasn’t having it. He wanted half a pint of orange juice and half a pint of lemonade mixed together, and that was what he expected to get.

I got a pint of real ale.

For food I had the fish and chips, a choice that I often make, whilst Liam had some sausages and mash with lashings of delicious gravy. The food was of a great quality, whilst the prices were very reasonable so it we felt that we chose well.

It’s quite rare for the owners of a building to really explain its history, so I was particularly pleased to see this. It helped put the building into some sort of context, and it’s strange to think that the current entrance to the building is where the horses used to come through.

[I’ve added this over four years on, so I can’t remember what it was like, looks good though!]

August 14, 2024
Coast to Coast 2 [2018] : Day 1 – Some scenery photos

[originally posted in 2018, I’m reposting these posts in August 2024 with the broken image links fixed]

Some photos of the varied scenery, we’ve had sea, forests, dales and moors today.

August 14, 2024
Coast to Coast 2 [2018] : Day 1 – Fox and Rabbit

[originally posted in 2018, I’m reposting these posts in August 2024 with the broken image links fixed]

Our lunch stop was at the Fox and Rabbit pub, although we limited ourselves to health drinks and packets of crisps. Hydration and salts, very important in this walking thing. They kindly gave us a jug of iced tap water so that we could refill our water bottles.

There’s a photo of me that didn’t upload, I’ll have to try to upload that again later, but in the meantime everyone can look at pictures of Liam.

The prices were a bit expensive (although that’s probably Liam and his premium price orange and lemonade drink) but there’s not much else in the area and it was a delight to have a little sit down. We stayed for around 40 minutes in the end, a bit longer than we had anticipated…….

August 13, 2024
Coast to Coast 2 [2018] : Day 1 – Scarborough Greggs

[originally posted in 2018, I’m reposting these posts in August 2024 with the broken image links fixed]

We thought that we should get some snacks for later on in the day. So this morning we went to Scarborough Greggs. The staff were delightful, the food and drink was great and the shop was clean. Top rated!

August 13, 2024
Coast to Coast 2 [2018] : Day 1 – Summary

[originally posted in 2018, I’m reposting these posts in August 2024 with the broken image links fixed]

DAY ONE – Scarborough to Kirkbymoorside

30.1 miles

The first day was certainly a challenge, taking us 11 hours from leaving Scarborough to arriving at Kirkbymoorside. The weather was favourable to us though, just a little bit of rain at the end of the day.

The beginning of the day started with Liam inspecting which bits of the lifeboat station he built have fallen down. I noticed a pile of rubble outside, but apparently that was a seat Liam had constructed. I didn’t say anything.

We dipped our feet into the North Sea, but it’s a long time until we see sea again…. (there’s a photo of Liam here that didn’t upload first time, will try again). I realised immediately that my boots aren’t waterproof.

All this walking (we had gone around 250 yards) made us hungry, so we had a Wetherspoons breakfast. Pastrami bagel, best food on their menu!

Two miles in my lace broke. I decided that this needed an engineer to fix….

When we were crossing the railway line we were slightly attacked by three dogs. I bravely protected myself and tried to get the dogs to attack Liam instead. When we crossed the railway line a local resident called out and asked her to take her stone for a walk. Obviously we thought that seemed just a little strange, but it’s one of those stones that people paint and see how far they go. We’ll keep the web-site updated so that the person who painted it sees how far it went.

The whole walk got quite tiring by the 20 mile stage, and the next few hours weren’t the easiest. We decided to do the last two miles by road, so that we could speed up a little bit and get into the hotel by 20:00. We arrive at 19:59 and were pleased to check into a warm room.

We have popped to the pub and the food was fantastic, just what we needed. More on this, and other news from today, will be uploaded in separate posts on Tuesday morning 🙂

August 8, 2024
Coast to Coast 2 [2018] : Day 0

[originally posted in 2018, I’m reposting these posts in August 2024 with the broken image links fixed]

So it all starts here!

Today was the day of getting to Scarborough, with Liam coming from Norfolk and me coming from Ramblers General Council in Bangor. It was an interesting weekend in Wales and there was lots of gossip and news that I found out.

Richard’s flap was loose and didn’t shut, causing some regular stopping to resolve. It caused some issues when his car keep issuing him alerts about his loose flap.

I had the delight of Richard driving me across the country to meet up with Liam, which was a lovely journey. Richard cut up about 40 cars and caused a very angry driver to stick his fingers up at him, so an entertaining little road trip. Above are Richard and Liam at the meet up point with Richard still wearing his Ramblers name badge so that people at the car park could know how important he is.

Greggs stop! It would be great if there were more Greggs on the route, but there are at least outlets of this fine dining chain at Scarborough, Thirsk and Morecambe. The chicken bake was delicious but was unfortunately not hot, but still a lovely way to start the week.

Liam at the meet up point. He might not look this happy in six days time when we’ve hopefully finished the walk.

We’ve had our evening meal in Scarborough, after stopping off at Greggs, and now we’re ready for an early start tomorrow (Monday morning). We’re staying at the Premier Inn in Scarborough, a full hotel but it’s centrally located and near for our JD Wetherspoon breakfast stop in the morning.

I didn’t finish this trip when we did in 2016 due to a blister, but Liam did. This time we’re going from Scarborough to Morecambe, so what could possibly go wrong?

August 8, 2024