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To the long Mynd
We headed west to be reunited with Jack Mytton, then north to the lower slopes of the Long Mynd. This bit of the route was stunning, and we met only one car as we climbed gently up towards lunch, with the bracken-covered slopes of the 7-mile long heath and moorland plateau on one side, and rolling hills on the other. Aficionados of Mint Sauce will recognise the feelings of “This is why”… Lunch was taken at Bridges, another of Shropshire’s fine hostelries. This one is run by the Three Tuns Brewery, which claims to be the UK’s oldest brewery, having been established in 1642. Clearly their beers do a good job in washing down food, as Mr D actually cleared his plate for once! He had been blowing out of his arse suffering since The Sun Inn on day 1 mind you…
We were now approaching the final stretch of our trip. There was just the small matter of getting over the third highest hill in these parts. Mercifully, the Lost Lanes route seemed to take us up the gentlest climb possible, topping out at a beautiful little tarn at Robin Hood’s Butts (snigger) before a last little bit of off-roading over to Boiling Well. From here, it was a simple matter of pinning it down the other side onto Church Stretton, something that would have gone a lot faster had it not been for getting stuck behind a car that seemed to be intent upon burning out its brake pads.
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