Day 15 Coast to Coast Blakey Ridge to Grosmont-penultimate day

Day 15 Pictures
It's funny how the weather seems to dominate your thoughts on a long walking holiday.
Will you get wet, will you boots remain dry, will you get them dry if they get wet, and so on.
The forecast for today wasn't good-rain and wind again.
We'd looked at the map, as one does, and decided to cut out walking a four km bitumen road section. We had travelled it in the car yesterday when we had been picked up.
We would add another four km onto the end to make tomorrows walk shorter.
By the time we had breakfast, packed up our bags for their 30 metre move, and been driven out to the start point, with Peter in the boot of the X-Trail it was 9.45AM.

Great Fryup Dale

It was windy and soon started to rain.
The jackets went on just after starting our walk across Danby High Moor. The walking was easy and it was quite snug in our jackets, with the rain falling lightly. In fact so light that we could walk with the hoods down.
After a while the rain stopped and all we had to contend with was the wind, initially in our faces and then from the right side.
The views into the various dales was impeded by the light mist and the pictures truly don't do the views justice.
After about 90 minutes we started our descent into Glaisdale, where we'd been the night before, and we were sitting having lunch at our pub by midday.
Lunch was somewhat hurried by further rain, so we headed off for the last 8km or so.

River Esk

Diesel Gala, Grosmont

This was along the River Esk, a very pretty walk, through Egton Bridge and finally to Grosmont.
Grosmont, pronounced Gro-mont, is the home of the North Yorkshire Railway company that runs steam and diesel tours from Grosmont to Whitby and other places and we had arrived for the Diesel Gala.
There were train buffs all over the place, shooting pictures of the comings and goings of the various trains.
We had about an hour to wait for our transport and I reckon about 20 trains came and left in that time. On each occasion the main street through the town being blocked by the closure of the railway crossing.
Mark, our host took us back to our B and B, the first modern house we have been in, and as I said only 30 metres from our pub of last night.
So it's back to the pub again, there's nowhere else, and tonight it's very quite, compared with the large numbers of walkers crowding the bar last night.
It starts to rain again so we hurry back to the B and b and then it's not only rain but thunder and lightening too.
We don't mind if it rains etc tonight just so long at its stops tomorrow for our final day.