Today we are travelling back home, but not before we have been tourists for just a little while longer. We tanked up on our “all you can eat” breakfast at the hotel, and then set off for on a tour of Buxton (where my wife spent her childhood,
and then on to Bakewell (to buy some proper Bakewell pudding). It is market day today (and the livestock market, too) so Bakewell is extremely busy, in spite of the weather, which is truly appalling – cold, and chucking it down with sleet and rain.
We buy some (extremely expensive) Bakewell puddings, and then drive to Chesterfield and drop in on my wife’s granny again, to wish her a Happy Birthday, stopping along the way to take in some of the stunning scenery.
I have aching muscles today, following all of my exertions of yesterday, so I can’t walk very far and I’m glad to get back into the car and be driven! Wierdly, it is my shins that hurt the most!
Half an hour later, and we are on our way back to Norfolk, stopping just the once (at a McDonald’s near King’s Lynn) and then picking up the dog from my father-in-law on our way home.