This is the second walk we do from Rothbury, and is on
the far side of the river to Cragside.
It takes us an hour and a half to get to the start of the
walk, all of it along the river and then across lovely open countryside
Lady Bridge is a mile from Rothbury, and our regular
morning walk when nothing else is planned for the day
Having crossed the river we have good views of Cragside,
which is the tree covered hill just behind Rothbury.
We have our banana stop just before we reach the car park
marking the start of the official Simonside walk
From here there is a lovely view of Rothbury and Cragside
The start of Simonside walk is through dense woods, which
would be ideal for one of our summer walks in Spain.
Then a steep climb up to large rock formation, which is
where we had our picnic lunch
We were fortunate to have a warm and sunny day, all too
often it is very cold and windy on this exposed ridge
If you look closely you will see muddy knees on
my new walking trousers, caused when I stumbled crossing a boggy patch
This stone slab path is really necessary due to
the very boggy ground
In places you can push your walking stick 12-18” into the
soft ground either side of the path
It was warm today, but we were not tempted to cool off
The rocky path is useful, but requires care going down
The rock formations are very unusual and attractive
We have now left the official walk and are making our way
downhill to Rothbury
It will take more than an hour, so we had a short break
to admire the views
This is a lovely, and rightly very popular, walk
It took us six hours to cover the 17km walk from door to
door.
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