Day 003 – Boustead Hill to Bowness

Distance: 10.7 km (Cumulative 62.0 km)

Steps : 20,571 (Cumulative 91,778)

Today has been a bit of a road walking day. We crossed the marsh to Drumburgh where Jezebel spotted a parish shop, run ’honesty box’ style. Here we had a cup of tea, stocked up with Rocky Road and Chocolate Tiffin and used the facilities. A lady was painting her gate.

We were puzzled as to how Port Carlisle got its name. It is only a tiny place, little more than a collection of a few houses but in Victorian times pleasure steamers: the ‘Cumberland’ and the ‘Arrow’ vied for space with submarines on Solway Firth and a substantial deep water dock was built at the northern end of the Carlisle ship canal

Masquerading as Hadrian’s Wall walkers, we had our picture taken at ’The Bank’

Where once a train ran on stilts.

At 4:50pm precisely, we were collected in a bright orange taxi cab and whisked off to The Inn at the Bush, our accommodation for tonight