We found ourselves battling with Bank Holiday motorway traffic, eventually reaching Edale in the early afternoon. Our digs were located and our farewells to Bob’s wife Kath were made. We went to explore Derbyshire.
Until now, despite living within a couple of hour’s drive of the Peak District, the outdoor attractions of North Yorkshire and the Lakes had conspired to prevent my boots from straying south of the Humber. We went to inspect Grindsbrook, the traditional, but now alternative, start to the Way. We climbed The Nab and Ringing Roger, then walked the edges high above the valley floor to circumnavigate the dale head. Very attractive hill country it is too. On a holiday weekend, though, it was all too easy to believe that The Peak is the second most visited National Park in the world: it was crowded.
The day concluded with a good meal and a fair pint in the very busy, but all too noisy, Old Nags’ Head, at the start of tomorrow’s walk. The place was heaving with undisciplined children and negligent parents. I was never rowdy as a youngster. My own brood, now adults, were well behaved for the most part. I can now confidently expound the view that children under ten years of age should be in bed by eight and be innocent of the interior of a pub until their late teens.
Did someone say, “What a grumpy old bugger”?
Accommodation
Mrs Jackson, Mam Tor House, Edale (01433 670253)
£20pp
This is a comfortable and recommended B & B providing a fine breakfast, which included eggs from chickens ranging the garden.
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