As usual the route we actually walked is in green

Setting off from Richmond Square we walked past the walls of the Castle hugging the high ground above the river Swale

The old town clusters round the imposing Castle

The noisy A1 road, jarring with the tranquillity of the flat farmlands we have been walking through.

The group plods on alongside the road - How does Loz get her sticks to do that?

... but there is time for a little messing about!

Back to the flat country in the Vale of Mowbray; we have been spoiled by the drama of our surroundings on previous days.

From the finish at Danby Wiske we were taken to our modest little B&B at Harforth Hall just in time for 'Pimms in the Garden' - which was held indoors.

Bill certainly looks right at home.

Chris, Liz and Loz having fun.

Margaret, Ann, Shirley and Jim queeze themselves in

Pat, Cathy and Dollie talk earnestly - only Ann B and Howard are absent.

I flew by in my helicopter some time later and snapped the old place - not bad from the air is it?