Coast to Coast Day 14 - Grosmont to Robin Hoods Bay

This is it. The last section of the walk!
Had an OK meal at the Station Arms and a reasonable night. It was ever so hot and humid and surprise surprise there was a thunder storm during the night so a more restless night than we would have hoped was had by both of us.
We woke early after our fitful nights sleep to heavy rain and dense fog, something the forecast promised would be with us for most of the day (turns out it was right).
Having stocked up on some lunch at the local store (The UKs oldest independent co-op store no less) we trudged up the 1 in 3 hill out of the village. The 1 in 3 continued for some time. In fact we were still going up hill over half an hour later! The rain was still heavy and the visibility was 10m at best. The route is mainly road with a few paths, one of which was so faint it would have been a nightmare to find it in the visibility we had so we boxed around it on the road. We remained faithful to most of the route although me missed out Littlebeck Wood (Littlebeck was a lovely village though, although little beck was more like raging torrent!). We also took the old railway line down along the coast. Although we could hear the sea we certainly couldn't see it and a narrow footpath along the cliff didn't seem wise. Trudy and Tuppence were waiting for us at the top of the hill and they walked down to the water with us. The first sight of the sea we got was at the harbour! Feet dunked, pebbles thrown, and compulsory photos taken we joined Dave and Jayne, and numerous other people that we had met along the way in the Wainwright Bar to sign the book and toast our success.
It has been a brilliant journey. We have met some fantastic people along the way and certainly grown stronger ourselves as people. And although we have a few aches here and there we made it over all 200 miles or so with no blisters at all!
I'll put another blog together with some photos from the camera when we get home with some highlights, high points and low points. For now it's getting late, we've had a few drinks and a nice meal, Dawn's already asleep and I'm knackered too!
Farewell from Robin Hoods Bay. Next instalment will be from Hertfordshire.

Matt & Dawn x