F'n'S Overseas: Day 13 – Danby Wiske to Osmotherley

Danby Wiske to Osmotherley (20 mins off C2C) near Ingleby Cross, was a 19.4 km leg across more farmland (more moors?).

The walking was not difficult and involved mainly walking on roads and tracks through farmlands. The only respite from this was having to cross a railway line and the (very) busy A19. The service station on the A19 proved to be handy and gave us a place to buy some lunch – one of the few times something was open at lunchtime when we needed it!

The last part of the walk was through Arncliffe Wood which is a forested area that is currently being harvested. There were bare patches where the trees had been removed and piles of logs waiting to be removed. This combination appears to have become a favourite habitat of pheasant as there were hundreds of them in the woods.

We were booked in at Vane House and Carol and Steve had a room on the ground floor while Frank and I had a very spacious family room up several stairs and down a long corridor.

We had fancied dinner at the Three Tuns because the menu sounded really nice but it turned out to be rather expensive and they were fully booked when we got there anyway so we had dinner at the Queen Catherine instead. Osmotherly was a rather quaint village with some lovely old houses and a very nice Outdoor Equipment shop with a very friendly, well-travelled owner who seemed quite happy to stay open past closing time just to have a bit of a chat.