Day 12 Tewkesbury to Kempsey

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Tuesday 11th July

This morning Sasha dropped me off back in Tewkesbury and I finally turned the corner in my trip and started heading north along the Severn. Beautiful scenery by the river and I tried doing a bit of thinking about what to do next with my life… the best thought I had was to become a stonemason. The reason for this was I had walked past some chaps earlier that were chiselling out some stone around a church and it looked like interesting work! But not really anything more constructive came to mind.

The day heated up a little bit and I took the first chance I have had on this walk to have a pub lunch… ham, eggs and chips went down very well but I think it may have made me a bit lethargic in the afternoon. The corn fly’s were out with a vengeance and that coupled with the smell as I walked through a field of spring onions bought back the summer Hannah, Sonia and I had washed and packed spring onions for my Dad… we smelt fantastic all summer!
I finished in Kempsey about 4 miles south of Worcester and as requested by Andrew put a pile of stones were I stopped so I could be sure of where to start again next week.

Todays Stats
Start Time - 8:00am
End Time - 4:00pm
Miles today - 12.60 miles
Miles Cumulative - 113.28 miles
Steps Today - 20,414
Steps Cumulative - 229,467
Blisters - 6
Chocolate/Granary Bars - 1
Rain - None
Temp @ Noon - 22c

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Photos

River Severn
Turning North for home!

Severn Way
I'll follow this all the way to Telford about 60 miles north.

Spring Onions
Fields and fields of them... the smell reminded me of one summer in the 1980's!

Corn Fly's
... or STORM BUGS!!!

Upton on Severn view
Nice place for a day out... old town to walk round and pubs by the river for lunch.

Phase 1 End Point
This is to mark where I walked to in Kempsey and where I will start again next week!