Well, my spectacularly bad route finding skills came in to play again today. After a delicious lunch at 'Off the Rails' café, we strolled along the remains of the railway line for a little while. My elderly Mother decided to go back to the car and said she'd meet us at Afton Garden Centre in 5 or 10 minutes. Hmmm.
We got to the end of the footpath and found ourselves on the Thorley Road, with no sign of another footpath. We turned left and followed the road for what seemed like miles, before seeing a footpath to East Afton. Perfect I thought! We need to get to Afton. HOWEVER, we didn't, we needed West Afton. After a trek through woodland, and across fields (scaring a pheasant on the way), we came out on the main Newport Road. The teenager was tired, so we sat on a tyre in the entrance to a farm track for a few minutes, enjoying the sunshine, then carried on until we finally got to Afton. We turned right at the main junction and trudged towards the Garden Centre, and were picked up by a wonderful friend who drove us the last few hundred yards to our destination, where my Mother was sat happily drinking tea. All was well!
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| View from Off the Rails |
Distance: 4.85 miles
Route we should have taken: http://gb.mapometer.com/walking/route_4484031.html
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