The carpets of snowdrops were amazing on the start of this journey

St Cuthbert’s Way Pilgrimage

Day Three - Harestanes to Morebattle

(Approx 10 miles)

We arrived at the very wide and fast flowing River Teviot…...listen to it’s roar!

As we walked into the early afternoon, I was rather mesmerised by the rhythm of the shadows journeying with us

From Harestanes we continued along Dere Street path for quite a way.

This must have been a major route during the time of St Cuthbert.

You really feel like you are walking in footsteps of the ancient monks here.

Then we had to cross the River Teviot on the suspension footbridge.

The bridge had quite a disconcerting wobble on it !

As you can see, the bridge was long and felt high. I don’t really like heights and I definitely don’t like wobbly bridges! This bit was quite a challenge for me.

Then we crossed lots of farmland.

The sun was shining and the big, open cloudless skies were glorious

This short section of woodland gave us a grand view of a large Waterloo monument on Peniel Heugh.

This woods also, rather bizarrely, had several painted cut-outs of Alice in Wonderland characters attached to the trees, for which we could find no explanation.