JOGLE 6.5 Day 8 Mon 9 Sep 13

Depart Jedburgh at 7.50 arrive at Kirk Yetholm at 1600. Distance 17.5 Miles.

We managed to get an early breakfast by a kind member of staff for 07.00. It is supposed to be 07.30. It is surprising how many places won't budge on this, to be honest I didn't really miss the scrambled egg, and double cereal with toast is good to go.   Ian was feeling a lot better. We managed to grab a few sandwiches for lunch on the way to the bus stop but in the end we found a nice pub to have lunch in and stayed chatting with other walkers for a while. We did met lots of walkers travelling along the St. Cuthbert’s Way today. Most were walking the whole of the St. Cuthbert’s Way as opposed to us who were just using it as means to get to Kirk Yetholm. For once we were all going in the same direction, but a novelty for us as we usually walk the opposite way. On arrival at Kirk Yetholm we took the obligatory photos of the end and start for us of the Pennine Way. Then I realised as we headed for the pub that I had booked us onto the wrong hotel, for some reason I thought the Plough was in Kirk Yetholm, it’s in Town Yethom a mile down the road. Well that’s two mistakes this trip, clearly my eye was not on the ball! We had a pint at the Border public house where4 it all started all those years ago. We wrote in the Pennine Way book and linked our 2009 entry up. We had a chat and photograph with Wainwright (His picture is on the wall) and set off for the Hotel in Town Yetholm. It was a very nice and friendly country place. The food was good and the shower better than most. As usual we were too tired to do anything else so hit the sack early for a good night’s sleep.