Wednesday 7 September.
We left The Bell Inn and turned right to pick up the 41/45 national cycle route via Saul to Upper Framilode, there to pick up The Severn Way again. As we booked 2 nights at The Bell we were only carrying day packs, great!
On leaving Frampton we noticed a significant number of houses were fitted with solar panels. I've just added a photograph of one. Strangely a lot were oriented due East or at best SE. When in sunny Sacramento, with Colin we didn't see any domestic panel installations.
There were some nice old Victorian houses in Saul and we've added a photograph of one of them. I also photographed the church, a very nice old building but probably doesn't get a vicar every Sunday.
We were soon in Upper Framilode and picked up the Severn Way to head West. There was a Parish Council Map of the Arlingham Horseshoe walk, I photographed it but you might not resolve much on the reduced version. It seems to be an area popular with ramblers.We were impressed. (Due to finger trouble the map is now the last photo, sorry).
The Severn had changed dramatically during our day on the canal. It was no longer a little inland river it was a tidal estuary and got wider as the day wore on. We were seeing it near low tide.
We passed ponies, walked at the edge of harvested corn and all with extensive views to East and West. There were lots of birds on the sandbanks but sadly you can't see any in the photographs.
Electricity is carried over the Severn and because of the width the towers are gigantic. See the photograph with Shiel.
There were few buildings on the stop bank where we were walking, but we noticed that on the one occasion where there were buildings a nearby Severn Way sign was vandalised. A large car tyre had also been dumped in one of the Way gates. It did however still open, just. A little further along we came across another vandalised Severn Way sign.
Just before we turned south we saw some interesting cliffs on the norhern bank and a photo follows.
Sweet corn was a popular crop and we passed a few fields of it, usually behind a hedge from the stop bank.
Just before we reached our lunch stop at the Old Passge House, final photograph, we passed a poignant memorial, a tree planted for a 10 year old boy, Thomas Haile
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