Day 34, Apple blossom campsite – Barmby upon Marsh

Weather: 🌤️☀️🌤️☀️🌤️
Food: 🥪🥪🍰🍰(4 out of 5, toastie lunch in Selby, and cake as 2nd lunch)
Track: 🇬🇧🇬🇧 (2 out of 5, ok trail, but a lot of roads and grassy dykes)
Campsite: ⛺⛺⛺⛺ (4 out of 5, flat, sheltered and quiet+ no showers but flowers here!)
Name of followed trail: Trans Pennine trail
Special mention: Derrick, the one legged cyclist who is cycling the TPT in 7 days! Keep up the good spirit Derrick!

This morning we woke up with ice on the tent again. And with a happy birthday song from Mark, as a kind reminder to my 45th birthday. We’ll celebrate with some cake in Selby, about 11 kmfrom the campsite. The trail to Selby is a lot of roadwalking. And we walk on an old runway, part of an airfield from the 2nd World War.

In Selby we see a cyclist with a prosthetic leg, wearing a safety vest stating he’s going to cycle the TPT in 7 days! His name is Derrick. Great guy to meet, with a very positive and ‘lets just do it’ attitude. We have a short chat and both go our own ways.

In Selby we get some lunch, and indeed cakes! It takes some time though, because at the first place we get good toasties, but don’t fancy the cakes, so we look for a second place to go to. They do have a good choice of cakes, and we’ll: why should I choose? 😁😇

Happy and fed we continue our trail on the banks of the Ouse river, that leads all the way to Hull. From Selby onwards most of the trail is on grassy dykes. That does get tiring after a while.

We get water at the public toilets we walk past, and look for a nice spot, sheltered from the wind.

We find one below the dyke, next to a field full of yellow flowers. So Mark even got me flowers for my birthday! We pitch and make dinner after a long day. Tired but satisfied we go to bed.