Walking and Talking

On a cool, cloudy day I shook the dust off the hiking gear and met up with my fellow ‘ancient roamer’ Pete for a walk round Byland on the North York Moors, and it being the best part of a year since our last outing there was a lot to catch up on, which led to much talking with the walking (at least until our breath ran a little short), which in turn led to not concentrating sufficiently on the not very clear route instructions and so frequently having to retrace steps and / or walk round the perimeters of fields trying to find a way out - to such an extent that according to my GPS app we covered seven and a half miles instead of the guidebook’s five; however the rain stayed off, we completed the circuit, had a good gossip, and generally put the world to rights again.