Gastropod gala

Day 3 Woolstone to East Ilesley.
Today I was in totally new surroundings having never walked beyond Uffington before. Rather murky and quite chilly but still the rain kept away. Lovely weather for walking in fact though it made some of the scenery a bit vague. What was visible was BIG and that was a bit of a surprise. Huge rolling hills, very few people and absolutely no motorbikes!
We were accompanied by a band of little black slugs mostly pointing the way we were walking plus a troupe of pole dancing snails. Why DO snails climb to the top of dry leafless stalks? It looks so uncomfortable. Mainly yellow shiny and brown. Clearly showing off their party shells.
The birdsong was glorious but even this began to pall as we neared the twelfth mile on our longest day.
Thankfully Ed picked us up from Bury Down and drove us the rest of the way to the Crown and Horns in East  where the food was good and the bed was soft. I don't remember much else!