Friday 5th August - day 12

Well we're in Wales!  We are now in Carmarthenshire, camping tonight near Llandovery.  It's become much more hilly so we're doing fewer miles each day, but we are still on target to reach St David's on Monday.  We've had some generous donations from people along the way.  One man kindly donated £10.  Tomorrow Ben's dad will be joining us and staying with us at the campsite. We'll be taking a bit of a rest tomorrow so that we can continue and finish our last two full days.  On Sunday night we will be walking to my grandmother's cottage near Maenclochog, Pembrokeshire where we'll stay the night.  It'll be good to have a hot bath and sleep in a bed again.

Day 8 - Tuesday 2nd August

Today we walked from Worcester to Leominster and we can now see Wales!

We were stopped by the radio car for BBC Hereford & Worcester and got ourselves o nterview on the radio –radio car happened to pass and interviewed us - by coincidence they were doing a feature on charities.  You can listen to our interview on BBC iPlayer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00j5q5r.  If you can't link go to BBC Hereford & Worcester and link to 'listen again' - Tony Fisher on the 9am show today.  We're about 20 mins in.

People have been supportive - one guy gave £10 in town when we walked through.

The landscape has definitely changed to hilly – a bit more testing but not too bad.  The so-called gourmet food isn’t!!  Breakfast this morning was meatballs, lunch a shop bought sandwich, and tonight: stew.

Our feet are holding up – not too bad.  Ben’s foot isn't too bad, he's using crutches uphill, but otherwise seems fine.