Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
A 20 minute drive for us, and we are at the pretty perfect village of Dunsop Bridge. Parking in the village carpark (necessary in Summer I expect), this is the view immediately over the road. Vey nice too. Even nicer, we saw a mother duck with 14 little ducklings (we were later to see a duck with but a single offspring for whom we then felt very sorry). What a simply gorgeous day for a walk - there have been many recently. We started down what looked like a private drive, almost making us feel we were trespassing, but not to worry we weren't. The house was called Redwoods, and the trees lining the drive were certainly impressive. Heading in the direction we wanted the scenery along the Hodder was delightful Unfortunately we reached an inlet which had had a wooden style come bridge which had collapsed into the river, and we couldn't proceed without getting our feet wet. A quick examination of the map took us back to Redlands and a walk in the opposite direction... A good choice, as within minutes we were away from everything and everybody with just the birds and sheep to keep us company. This was not a river crossing for us but an aqueduct... This particular bridge, our bridge, was not to my liking, so F. went across first, checked the amount of wobble (quite a lot), and I meekly followed. The walk was perfect - beautiful scenery, quiet, blue skies, tinkling river, trees ready to burst into leaf, gambling lambs. Could every day of retirement be like this?
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