That's All Folks, Signing Off

The last 13 and a bit miles have now been done and we are Offa's Dykes veterans. Sadly, this was our least favourite day's walking. There was far too much very muddy, woodland path walking, high above the River Wye, with nothing to see but trees. We did get a bit of relief when we took the River Wye river bank alternative path option (but still official ODP). This was very nice walking ...


The approach to Chepstow and the Sedbury Cliffs finish was also rather uninspiring. Sorry to any locals, but we definitely preferred the Prestatyn end. We did pick up Offa's Dyke again today and it was with us during the last few yards, which felt good. After all the big ups and downs of the path, we had to smile at the fact that the last few yards to the end, were a real steep pull up, worthy of a guide book double chevron - the path wasn't going to let us go that easily ...


... we liked the 'nearly there' encouragement we got on the sign, to encourage us to dig deep, for that last, almost vertical section.

Then suddenly the end had arrived. We sat on the marker stone (which has the distance wrong) and looked out across the River Severn ...


We might have grumbled a bit about today's stretch but don't let that put you off having a go yourself. It is a truly great walk, and as all the Australians, Americans and other nationalities we've met, who gave travelled long distances to do the walk tell us, we are truly blessed to have such riches in our land to walk and explore.

Signing off now,

Love, George, Yorkie and Gio xxx

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