B2B Day 78 Chee Dale and the Monsal Trail? Not today, sadly.

For an OS map of today's planned walk that we didn't do (7.3 miles; 11.75 km; 1,104 ft total ascent), click here.

If the weather was going to be good, Ken had planned a walk in the dramatic gorge-like stretch of Chee Dale for our rest day at Litton Mill. The weather was not good, and Ken was still not feeling well, so we had a true rest, er, recuperation day. He was disappointed that we weren't able to do the Chee Dale walk, which he had planned and even scouted out via a YouTube video. [Someday we'll come back and do this as it is a Peak District classic—Ken]

We went down to breakfast and enjoyed a lovely mix of fruit, nuts, and granola. I had pretty much a full English breakfast with the addition of a fried Derbyshire oatcake, and Ken had a lovely combination of scrambled egg, avocado, and streaky bacon on toast. We enjoyed chatting with Linda and Brian. We went downstairs to our own guest lounge, but Ken wasn't up for a game of ping pong! While we were in the guest lounge, Linda tidied up our bedroom and replenished our tea and milk, and in addition left us two slices of lemon drizzle cake.

We came upstairs to our refreshed room around 11:00 a.m. I posted two blog posts and worked on another while Ken slept till after 1:00 p.m. Then it was my turn to nap from 2:00-3:30 p.m. after eating a bun for lunch. Ken wasn't hungry.

I read a slim book about John Newton that I found spiritually refreshing and quite interesting. (Ken had skim-read it earlier and also really enjoyed it.)

Eventually we pulled ourselves out of our dozy state and left at 5:05 p.m. to walk to The Angler's Rest—appropriately named, given our lazy day. However, even walking at our slow pace, which was made even slower by our taking some photos along the way, we arrived before the pub was serving food.

Beautiful scenery on the way to the Angler's Rest

 

We sat outside the pub on a bench, and then headed in around 6:00 p.m. A table for two was available in the small dining room, which was decorated with a bookcase and many cute animal figurines. The "Specials" board had several items crossed out, some of which would have appealed to us. When Ken ordered a burger from the main menu, he was told that they didn't have any beef burgers left, but he could order a chicken burger instead. He did. When it arrived, it was indeed chicken, but between two slices of bread. We suspected they had run out of hamburger buns as well as beef. (It was a Monday night and maybe they don't get restocked until later in the week?) I had a vegetarian lasagne, and we both agreed that it was good pub food.

We were back at our B&B by 7:25 p.m., and received our laundry from Linda washed, dried, and folded. We felt so cared for.

For the rest of our evening, I worked on the blog and half-watched an episode of Grand Designs with Ken, followed by a European track and field competition. We ate our lemon cake and listened to the rain and hail patter (and sometimes pound) on our skylight. We again fell asleep to Night Tracks.