Ascent: approximately 50m
Weather: Cloudy start, sunny and warm in the afternoon.
Yesterday we visited Powis Castle - it rained constantly all day but the gardens were still lovely, and they have top tea and scones. We walked there from town through the park, and did about 6 miles.
After a lardy breakfast this morning, we set off back along the Montgomery Canal retracing our steps to where we'd left the ODP. We decided against buying any livestock at the market, but crossed the field towards the River Severn. The Offa's Dyke path as it is marked on the map does have a raised dyke though the floodplain, but it's hard to tell how much is historical and how much is just modern flood defence.
We were walking along a short stretch of canal when Rob felt like he might be getting a migraine, so quickly had a dose of paracetamol express and jelly beans and we hoped for the best. Thankfully it didn't seem to develop into more than a bad headache.
Back alongside the river, there were many cows, some of them guarding the stiles, some of them just sitting having a chew. They'd made quite a lot of muddiness in places. We also saw a few bunnies and some squirrels, and a goldfinch and some little yellow birds, which aren't so messy.
After passing though a little village of Four Crosses, we were back on the canal. We took a lunch stop at a bench just as we arrived on the towpath and then wandered along looking at the swans and cygnets, geese and goslings and ducks and ducklings (none of them were ugly) and soon into Llanymynech. We dropped off out bags at the Bradford Arms Hotel where we are staying tonight and went for a cup of tea at the Wharf visitor centre and a look around the Limekilns.
PS. The technical editor of the Sheeptrods Blog (Rob) commented that I hadn't really captured the drama and alarming nature of his averted migraine today. It really was horrible and very worrying. And also, we had homemade date and walnut cake with our lunch.
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