29.5Km in 8:59
(so much for the 26Km estimate)
A good day for the last full day of walking. The weather forecast was for rain from about 1200 but luckily it held off until about 1600.
Today had some tricky little hills that tested us out. The path was predominately through woods (which were beautiful and good walking) with some fields and road walking. The road walking was on busy roads which was not very pleasant.
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| Woods |
The day started with a climb out of Monmouth which topped out at Kymin. Great view of Monmouth from here.
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| Kymin |
The woodland walking just kept going which is great. Highbury Wood was particularly good as the path is high on a ridge.
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| Highbury Woods |
Libby and Gail met us at about the 11Km mark; they had brought lunch with them which was excellent and kept us going for the rest of the day.
We got a view of Tintern Abbey from a lookout called' The Devils Pulpit'. Great view of the abbey and the Wye River. As the day became overcast the woods were dark and difficult to navigate in; all good fun and we did contemplate using torches.
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| Tontern Abbey from Devils Pulpit |
We got our first view of the ocean at the 23Km mark (it came out of nowhere as we walked out of the last wood). The rain started at about 1600 so we had many more hours of good weather than we had expected. The final few Km into Chepstow were a bit of a drag; roads, small lanes, flooded roads etc. We miscalculated one turn off and went further than we needed to so back tracked a small amount and came into the accommodation from a different direction; this will save time tomorrow.
Luckily the path today was reasonably well signposted as the guidebook maps today were substandard and in places quite confusing (there have been changes to the path since the current guidebook edition).
It's not over yet as we have the final few Km to finish off tomorrow (about 1 hour off walking left).
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