TIGER LEAPING GORGE
night!
As with every good night the next morning is never what you need, everybody had happily forgotten the extremely early start we had when the beers were in full flow and it was gone midnight by the time I got to bed, I had left Rob and co to it so god knows what time he got to bed - he doesn’t quite remember! But how much of a bad idea did we both think the night before was when we heard the beautiful (not!) tones of Robs phone alarm shrieking at us at some unearthly hour of the day! We were supposed to have got ourselves up, ready and had breakfast all 6.45 as we had at least a 4-5 hour walk ahead of us and a bus to catch at 11!!! We finally got going at 8 with most people feeling very much worse for wear! At least the last part of the walk was flat and along the road, so we walked in virtual silence and it must have been a good hour before we started to feel human again! It was hard going, it would have been anyway minus the hangover, our legs
As with every good night the next morning is never what you need, everybody had happily forgotten the extremely early start we had when the beers were in full flow and it was gone midnight by the time I got to bed, I had left Rob and co to it so god knows what time he got to bed - he doesn’t quite remember! But how much of a bad idea did we both think the night before was when we heard the beautiful (not!) tones of Robs phone alarm shrieking at us at some unearthly hour of the day! We were supposed to have got ourselves up, ready and had breakfast all 6.45 as we had at least a 4-5 hour walk ahead of us and a bus to catch at 11!!! We finally got going at 8 with most people feeling very much worse for wear! At least the last part of the walk was flat and along the road, so we walked in virtual silence and it must have been a good hour before we started to feel human again! It was hard going, it would have been anyway minus the hangover, our legs
were tired we were trying to go faster than we should to make up some time and it was getting hot! The scenery was changing as we were leaving the gorge and it was getting a lot flatter oh how I wished for a magic carpet!!!
Greg decided to take a short cut, which involved going up a very steep hill, my god it nearly killed us all, we were feeling a bit grumpy about this and we muttering that it better be a good short cut and to be fair to Greg it was, we went through some lovely little villages. We also knew that we had a steep decent and steep climb at the last part of our route as we needed to take a ferry across the river, it was hard going to say the least our knees were killing and to be honest just at the moment I saw the hill we had to climb on the other side of the river I honestly felt like crying! I didn’t though! We rested while the ferry came over to pick us up and just kept
Greg decided to take a short cut, which involved going up a very steep hill, my god it nearly killed us all, we were feeling a bit grumpy about this and we muttering that it better be a good short cut and to be fair to Greg it was, we went through some lovely little villages. We also knew that we had a steep decent and steep climb at the last part of our route as we needed to take a ferry across the river, it was hard going to say the least our knees were killing and to be honest just at the moment I saw the hill we had to climb on the other side of the river I honestly felt like crying! I didn’t though! We rested while the ferry came over to pick us up and just kept