Friday 11 July Worth Matravers to Swanage

By: Mike

 Oaiab 4 going down steps from Worth Matravers Chris is behind me and calls out "Mike, glasses"

They have fallen out of my pocket.  If she had been ahead, the specs would have been lost. 

I go off on one about old age. Chris is having none of it.

"You just need to take more care. It's nothing to do with your age".

It's another scorching day, Temperature soon hits 28, We are saved by a cooling breeze from the sea. Up country, as we West Country folk say, the thermometer is hitting 34.

It is easy walking. There will be a picture.  But wait. It isn't is it?  It can't be.  After 600 miles - it is.  I have my first blister.  I carry a minimal first aid kit - a bandage, elastoplast and antiseptic cream.  The tiny blister is soon covered up.

Raynor Winn has published a rebuttal. It is quite convincing.  Becky texts that she is confused.  The story has a way to go. 

There is no shade. We eat our lunch in the blazing sun. There is a moments respite at Durlston Castle, where we drink cold lemonade in the shade. 

                                            Durlstone Castle.  Not a real castle, obviously


                                                    The Globe at Durlston Castle

After the castle, there is shade, but we are exhausted by the time we get to Swanage


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