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C2C: day 20, epilogue

The Coast to Coast is a lovely path, made better with more time in the Lake District.

The wind picks up to gale force and the skies look black, but it’s easy walking if you can stay upright.

In Grosmonth, the Hogwarts Express arrives to much delight and picture taking.

The trail is so eroded in Yorkshire that stones have been placed to save it like a garden path.

The trail is absolutely flat, broken up only by charming churches and friendly horses.

Farmland continues as well as unusual stile to climb over rock walls holding flocks of sheep.

It’s a shortcut over the moor, easy now in dry weather, until a storm builds and I lose my bearings.

A wrong turn causes a detour to the lovely farm at Ravenseat where children greet me with smiles.

The way is easier as it rolls into farmland and tiny villages appear.

Rugged and beautiful all the way to Haweswater where the midges kept me in tightly sealed in my tent.