This hike was a couple of weeks ago now, but I thought I'd post a few photos anyway.
And yeah, this is one of my most frequent summer hikes. I take pretty much the same photos every time! Just shows I like it up there, I guess.
The trees and hazel all around the mountain is so thick it's too dark for undergrowth.
And then suddenly you step from the shadows into the blazing sun.
The usual flock of sheep is hiding. Hundreds of them in there. Wimps!
No countryside is complete without cows.
The trail down the other side of the mountain has totally different trees. I don't know why.
Then it's back to farmland
and all the sheep again hiding under a tree. Brave donkeys in the sun!
Around this point I realized that although I had made good time, my appointment with my landlord was sometime between 4 and 5 - not sometime after 5. Even making it home by 5 would be a challenge, so I packed up the camera and speedwalked the remaining 8k or so. Which would have got me there in plenty of time if only I hadn't just missed the bus & there wasn't another for 45 minutes!
So I got there at 5:10, and Mr Delaige was chatting with his friend the window guy on the front steps. Said no problem - they were old friends who hadn't seen each other in ages, and waiting around didn't bother them at all. In 15 minutes I had all my windows measured, and in the fall I will have nice insulated windows instead of these old ones that leak heat as fast as the radiators put it out.
2 comments:
What a glorious hike!
P.S. Silly sheep - good thing they had donkeys to guard them!
The landscape reminds me of he Chiltern Hills near London (where I once had a nasty encounter with a hawthorn bush at the foot of a steep, snowy slope I'd sledged down on a bin-bag...)
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