{"id":12235,"date":"2015-11-24T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2015-11-24T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T23:32:21","slug":"still-wednesday-august-12th-the-conclusion-to-our-first-day-of-the-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wales-2015\/still-wednesday-august-12th-the-conclusion-to-our-first-day-of-the-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Wednesday, August 12th – the conclusion to our first day of the hike"},"content":{"rendered":"

now that’s a wordy title!<\/p>\n

it was a very, very busy day. We hiked all around the Dale Peninsula, which may have only been 5 1\/2 miles, but maybe it was more than that – however far it was, it took a very long time, as i’ve said. \u00a0we’d made the decision to forgo seven more miles of walking to the town of Marloes, our stop for the night, and instead went back to the Allenbrook B&B and collected our car. \u00a0the owners had thought it would be fine if we left our car in Dale, but she assured me that the guy who owned the B&B in Marloes would also be fine with us leaving our car at his place for the nights of our hike.<\/p>\n

when we got back to Allenbrook, these little chickens greeted us in the driveway. \u00a0so cute!<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Allenbrook owner, John with one of his cool old cars. \u00a0he works on them a lot, and he assured me that he’s taken this enormous thing out on the tiny roads wround dale. \u00a0amazing.<\/p>\n

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two of these dogs guarded the drive; it looks like a greyhound to me!<\/p>\n

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we drove the short way to Marloes – it was only about three miles by road! \u00a0we started out on the tiny road leading from dale, and then turned onto an even tinier road. \u00a0luckily we didn’t meet any cars and didn’t have to back up.<\/p>\n

we were happy to arrive at\u00a0The Clock House<\/a>\u00a0in Marloes, which was charming – \u00a0pictures to follow another day. \u00a0we decided to walk down the road to the path, to know how far we’d be going in the morning.<\/p>\n

it wasn’t a long walk down the uncrowded little road, and found the path following this field.\"w223\"<\/a><\/p>\n

such a spectacular day!<\/p>\n

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we decided to walk down the path to the water, but i looked mighty steep to me. \u00a0as we made our way down, a group of teenagers came walking up the path – and some of them were wearing flip flops! \u00a0so here we were in our hiking gear, and i was nervous about walking down – but they’d done it in flip flops. \u00a0but they probably grew up there and did that all the time. \u00a0maybe if i lived there, i’d walk it in flip flops, too.<\/p>\n

i doubt it.<\/p>\n


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the rocky path we climbed down.<\/p>\n

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here’s the part of the path we missed walking, facing south – hopefully it wasn’t something so fantastic that we’ll regret seeing it! \u00a0probably not. \u00a0but maybe someday we’ll go back and walk it.<\/p>\n

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someone cut steps into the stone here.<\/p>\n

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I climbed down this steep path!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Marloes was such a tiny town – they had one little touristy kind of store with a few odds and ends, but no proper grocery store, no gas station – there were a couple of churches and one pub, that’s it. \u00a0even though it wasn’t right on the water, it was a very nice little place.<\/p>\n

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very attractive houses lined the main street.<\/p>\n

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because it had only one pub, we didn’t have to decide where to have dinner. \u00a0the clock house owner, also named john like the proprietor of the Allenbrook, didn’t think much of the pub and suggested we drive to the town where we’d end up in two nights, but we had no desire to get back in the car.<\/p>\n

i can’t remember what i had for dinner, but it wasn’t so memorable…<\/p>\n

but then there was dessert.<\/p>\n

i ordered sticky toffee pudding, because i’d never had it, but had heard of it.<\/p>\n

it was one of the best desserts i’d ever had, despite being completely chocolate-free.<\/p>\n

a layer of moist\u00a0cake, which i later found out was made of dates, and then this delicious sticky carmel-y topping. \u00a0you could get it with cream or ice cream or whipped cream. \u00a0i chose cream.<\/p>\n

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soooo good…i kept texting a small group of people about our trip as we went, and i said that i’d have a sticky toffee pudding party for anybody on the list…and i haven’t even made it at all yet. \u00a0i did find a few recipes, and it doesn’t look very difficult, but things have kept getting in the way of actually baking it.<\/p>\n

plus of course there’s the fact that each piece must have about one million calories, and i’m not doing any long hikes to burn off all those calories.<\/p>\n

i did buy the dates, though – now that i’m not going to be so busy for the next few days because of\u00a0thanksgiving, maybe i’ll make some.<\/p>\n

because if there’s one thing we\u00a0need during this holiday that’s all about eating a lot is more rich and delicious food.<\/p>\n

ok then,<\/p>\n

mrs. a little bit in the holiday spirit hughes.<\/p>\n

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