Ascent: 450m
Weather: Cloudy
Critters: small rodent in field, wildcat (or more probably big fluffy farm cat chasing small rodent in field), bunnies (which failed to peform for the camera), goats.
Portents: a cow with the pox tried to lick me, we crossed a bridge covered in spiders and then saw a scary face in a tree.
The B&B was a little off the official path, and although there was a short cut that we could have taken, we were good and retraced our steps to the point we left the path last night. The path then goes though a little wood behind the caravan park at Mellington Hall, where we could smell a heady mix of bacon fat and butane filling the morning air.
The route passed mostly through arable farmland today, where they grow lots of different crops, but it seemed to me that the number of different wildflower species was much less, there were some poppies though.
We didn't stop in Forden to visit the pub because it seemed a much bigger place than we'd expected and there was no sign until we were out the other side, so we walked on, and up the hill - where the route of Offa's Dyke also follows an old Roman road. Here you can see the soil and rock structure in the Dyke wall.
We stopped for our lunch near Offa's pool, which didn't have much water in it at all, but did have a conveniently place log, and then climbed the hill to Beacon Ring. This an iron age hill fort, where a tree attacked me, or possibly just wanted to come with us, and then we walked down to Buttington over fields and pastures.
Here we left the Offa's Dyke path for now, and followed the Mongomery Canal, which has yellow flag irises, ducks, ducklings and fish, into Welshpool where we shall be taking a day off tomorrow. They've even put the bunting out for us.
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