On a fine day it was back on
the Teesdale Way Path, starting at the Tees Barrage in Stockton, but the aim to
get all the way to Redcar was ambitious and I soon moderated my plans to
reaching South Bank station, which at least gave me scope to linger in a couple
of unlikely spots: the Teesaurus Park was unexpected but weirdly impressive
with an array of large steel fabricated dinosaurs tucked away amongst the trees,
tough enough to withstand urban youth, if not their graffiti; the other
unscheduled stop was in the industrial wasteland of East Middlesbrough on a narrow
path between the A66 and the railway line, where I stopped to harvest a stretch
of brambles, filling my (by now empty) lunch bag with squidgy blackberries necessitating
the use of the last of my water to rinse my stained and sticky hands.
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