The picturesque village of Eaton.
A true statement above the door.
Lunch in the Sun, not everyone's ideal location of choice, but time was such that if we hadn't have stopped then and carried on in hope of a better place, our hope would have been fruitless!
At least we were in the sunshine.
Heading towards Beeston Castle, but thankfully not our destination today.
Walk stats: Distance: 10.8 miles. Climb: 632'.
Time: 5 hours 31 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.3 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.0 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn, Gordon, Phil. Roger, Fran and Tito, Celia, Sylvia and Dave J.
What a superb day for walking this turned out to be. We had glorious blue skies and sunshine for most of the day, and the frozen ground made our life easy to negotiate what in warmer times would have been unpleasantly muddy. However that last few fields that we crossed had been in the sunshine long enough to defrost the top surface and remind us that this walk was potentially a very muddy section of the Trail!
The first part of the walk allowed us to pas through Eaton, a lovely picturesque village, with many houses reflecting that this was a very affluent area of Cheshire, but at least one house did have a staement of truth above that door that everyone should heed.
Unusually lunch was taken in an unusual place alongh the roadside, but we were running late and a few of us were getting hungry. It was at tyhis point that Celia realised that the inner glove that she thought she had lost, hadn't been lost at all, and she had it all the time!
After lunch we set off along today's section of the Sandstone Trail, not a particularly noteable section, but at least we had good views of Beeston Castle ahead (part of our next walk on the trail), and saw quire large numbers of Fieldfar and Redwing in the fields adjacent to the footpath.
Birds see today included: Blue tit, Great tit, House sparrow, Pied wagtail, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Great spotted woodpecker, European robin, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Blackbird, Common buzzard, Nuthatch, Chaffinch, Woodpigeon, Dunnock and Mistle thrush.
We arrived back at the car, tired and in anticipation of our usual pint a the Rising Sun. Alas Fran had left a not on the car telling us that the Rising Sun had shut at 15-00 and it was now 15-30! However anothe r hostelry in Tarporley came to our rescue, "The Swan". This turned out to be superb place, once you had got use to the heat generated by the open fires! A good choice of real ale, with Weetwood brews and Otter brews going down well. This is certainly a place that we will visit again!
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