Golden Orb

November 20 Swindon
There was a golden orb in the sky today--something we hadn't seen for a while, something called the sun!! Yay!
We, and our luggage, shifted to our third inn--the Swan in Swinbrook. Six days of walking, 3 inns, 2 nights each. We opted to do the 9 mile walk rather than 12 today, figuring the tracks and footpaths  would still be soft. Somehow we wound up doing 12 anyway with a couple of our own side excursions.
The Foot Trails company has certainly done a quality job in planning our trek. One HUGE benefit has been waterproof paper for the route directions. The instructions are very precise so you have them in hand all the time. Regular paper would have just disintegrated with the rain.
Another interesting fact about England--every individual field has a name known to he farmer.  One farmer we talked with said his field names date from the 1700s!