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Published: August 21st 2019
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Full English breakfast at Vallum lodge20 August 2019, Tuesday
This day started out with the good full English breakfast at Vallum Lodge. With my bags ready to go I walked to the Sill where I caught the AD 122 bus to Haltwhistle train station. At Haltwhistle, I saw Don and Sue, from Auckland, who had taken a taxi back from Gilland. They spent the night, then came to the station to catch the train to Newcastle. Fortunately, he could show me how to work the kiosk in order to buy my train ticket from Haltwhistle to St Bees.
The train took me to Carlisle where I transferred to the train to St Bees. I arrived in St Bees, approximately 1:30 and was able to walk the short distance to the Stonehouse where we were are lodging for the evening. About an hour later Chuck Wilson and Jim and Ruth Ann Bowman arrived on the train from Barrow on Furnace.
After we had gotten settled in our rooms we set out to walk the first 7.4 miles of the Coast to Coast trail. It was a beautiful sunny day relatively warm but with a very cooling briskbreeze. View out over the ocean was magnificent
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Haltwhistle station sign as well as along the coast we could see the harbor at St Bees and the town of Whitehaven as we walked along the cliff past the lighthouse. The quarry along the Oceanside is an active quarry.
This walk proved to be much longer than we had anticipated by the time we had made the loop and come back to St Bees it was over 9 miles thus we were about 40 minutes late for our 7 p.m. dinner reservation. All in all it was a good start for the hike.
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