Route: fairly directly by minor roads, thus cutting out the planned route via Bowness on Solway, for coffee outside a Costa in Carlisle. After a short detour in the wrong direction, out along the Reivers Cycle route as far as Hethersgill for lunch. Then, Lois suffering from a sore knee, taking a beeline roughly parallel with the river Lyne to Bailey Mill for tea and then by the Reivers detour route across empty moorland before dropping into Newcastleton.
Conditions: dry, mainly cloudy with sunny spells.
Pub: at lunchtime, the Black Lion, for Corby Ale; in the evening, The Grapes, Newcastleton, for bottled Ringwood Boondoggle.
