Friday saw the C Releif walking club tackling the Hole of Horcum near Goathland (TV's Aidensfield from Heartbeat)
The weather was kind with only a momentary mizzle towards the end of the walk which cooled us off nicely. No hassle from the sheep this time, instead AJ got chased by a bull. This was a Aberdeen Angus highland, so quite what it was doing in North Yorkshire is anybodys' guess - perhaps it was on holiday? Normally a benign and harmless creature this one took exception to AJ and chased him for no immediately apparent reason. It was most amusing for the rest of us, not quite so funny for AJ. As he commented afterwards, 2 tonne of beef with pointy bits running into him is not his idea of fun.
We managed to get lost, in what is now an accepted tradition of these walks, but that was probably because we took a short cut to avoid further harrassment from the bulls.
The last part of this walk involves a steep climb, which certainly lets you know you've finished, as it gets all the leg muscles complaining nicely. From there it was only natural to point the car towards Goathland for a pint of brown and sticky in the Aidensfield Arms (sorry, Goathland Hotel) As we left we spotted one of the Heartbeat Panda cars parked up at Scripps Garage. Another was parked outside the post office, causing us to speculate whetehr we had missed some of the filming that day - they tend to film in the late Autumn and Winter months as there are less tourists about.
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