50 shades of green, plumb and purple with rocky hills, waterfalls and little streams with sheep running free. One hillside with newly planted young trees as we drive into a forest area with huge pine trees on both sides, quite a bit of traffic too ,quite dark where the overhanging branches meet to form a canopy overhead.
Then in the middle of nowhere there appears Snake Pass Inn with a group of fluoro suited, helmeted people about to set off adventuring in some form or other.
Past Ladybower resevoir, over Derwent Valley Dams then back into a town so filled up with lpg 60p ltr £10 for 16.8 ltrs. near Worksop. We decided to detour to Sherwood Forest for lunch......saw the sign......
kept on driving, no more signs ended up way past, must have missed it as we found ourselves almost in Nottingham at Arnold. Turned back at roundabout....drove on until we saw the sign.....again.....different angle this time found the long and windy road that led deep into Robin Hood country. There was a week of Robin Hood Festival and lots of school children and staff dressed up as Maid Marion, Friar Tuck and of course Robin himself. Very busy so Tony went in search of a bottle of Mead, but found he was on a wild Mead chase as it was an alcohol free festival.
Onwards to Lincoln, Pat came out as we were trying to get between cars and Ruby, but traffic quite busy so waited till the traffic cleared a bit later to drive out and get a better angle.
Cuppa and a catch up, then a bit of maneuvering before dinner to get Bessie in and settled for the few days we will be here.
Lovely evening catching up and looking at maps of Scotland for our joint trip in September
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