Offas Dyke Day 0 Chepstow

Day17Transit Day
Well I've had a few days off having finished Coast to Coast and trained from Robin Hood's Bay to Birmingham via York.
We left Arrienne and Peter in Robin Hood's Bay at the bus stop, waiting for a bus (yeah I know, obviously). They had a later train from Scarborough than us so had time for a bus.
We had to get a taxi, that arrived on time and dropped us off at Scarborough Station with plenty of time to spare.

Mouse man's Handiwork on the Old Robin Hoods Bay Police Station Gate

The taxi took us via a gate with some handiwork of a man known as the mouse man!
The Trip via York was pretty painless, through some very nice English countryside, of course.
At Birmingham, Eve and Margaret went off to stay in a pub and I was reunited with Sue and my friend Pat, with whom we stayed the last two nights.
Pat is a GP, whose wife is working at the local hospital doing extra training in liver transplant surgery, she is a surgeon.
He and I worked together a few years ago.
Sue and I had a day walking Birmingham, around the canals and jewelery quarter and other places.
We visited the Pen Museum.
Did you know that 90% of all pen nibs (the old wet ink variety) were made in Birmingham.
Today was our transit day to Chepstow in south Wales.
As we headed south in the car, the weather worsened and of course it is now steady rain.
We visited Cardiff, so I could be added to the list of drivers for the car and frankly we saw so little of Cardiff as it was so wet.
Anyway here we are in the shadow of Chepstow Castle, the first stone castle in Wales, 50 metres from the English border, with the rain falling.
We can only hope tomorrow is another day from the weather point of view.