One of the joys of Britain is the great hiking trails that allow you to wander through its vast countryside. The oldest is the Pennine Way, which stretches 431 kilometers along England’s ‘backbone’ [comme on appelle la chaîne de montagnes des Pennines, qui traverse sa partie nord] from the village of Edale, in the Peak District (Derbyshire), to the Cheviot Hills in Scotland.
In mid-April, we decided with a friend to embark on this path. We have 126 springs between us and neither of us can be called a great sportsman. But after seventeen days of painfully putting one foot in front of the other, we finally reached the finish line, where we were rewarded with half a pint of beer and a certificate from the village’s Border Hotel. of Kirk Yetholm, which marks the end of the course.
Singing larks and bleating sheep
What surprised us the most was the extent of the wilderness. We often scanned the horizon without seeing any sign of human presence, except for a farm or two in the distance. The only sounds we heard were the chirping of larks and the bleating of sheep, which outnumbered humans a thousand times. At other times, the trail took us straight through a farmyard: we passed stunned cows and angry dogs, and sometimes a few feet from people’s windows.
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