On Offa's Dyke

A walk that almost never was. We headed off to do a long birthday walk for Tracy and for once everything aligned and the date gave us some good weather. We headed off to park at our usual place at the Panorama above Llangollen. It was absolutely brassic, beautiful beautiful but bone freezingly cold. The car thermometer was hovering around zero and that was without the significant wind chill, we almost bailed right there and then but decided to not attempt the ten miler and just do something shorter instead.

Anyway you can probably guess the rest, 10 miles later we got back to the car in the dark having had a fabulous walk. Although the initial 6 or 7 miles is quite familiar to us the new part was jaw droppingly gorgeous in the Winter sunshine reminding us of Spain more than Llangollen. We came down between cliffs and old mine shafts at a place called World's End and then walked around  these enormous pillows of limestone in the ever lowering sun and then we headed up a narrow crease in the hills that alongside a waterfall and icicles that reminded us of the NW Highlands. It was truly stunning and one to return to soon. It's only half an hour away so that won't be too hard.