After an evening of listening to a couple of hikers, German woman and English man, chat and top trump each-other in walking stories (think they were flirting with the blokes mate not seeming too impressed) we were grateful they headed to their own tents to sleep as we did too. Sleeping well, we had planned a lie in to get breaky at a bike cafe at the beginning of the trail at 9, but we ended up being awake, up and ready to go by 8! Not wanting to hang around we decided to cook up porridge before setting off in the sunshine, for the 17km walk to Richmond. Spotting and passing some other walkers, we followed the quiet road down and round into a small wooded section, which was hiding the first steep incline. Levelling
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