Martin led 7 of us on a walk that went through, and round the peripheries, of Wick. Although a little bit grey, the weather was bright and the temperatures were quite mild. It certainly didn’t rain, but we did encounter some muddy puddles from rain earlier in the week.
I used to live in Wick, and we passed our old house, but Martin was able to point out features that I had never noticed before, even after having lived there for 20-odd years. For example, we saw the long-since-disused village swimming pool which looked as if it could be restored, should anyone ever want to do that.
In one of the fields, a dozen or so horses came thundering towards us at full gallop. One or two of found this mildly disconcerting, but when they found that we didn’t have any food for them, they got bored and wandered off. Wick is certainly a very horsey area, and that wasn’t the only field we crossed that was full of horses.
A couple of other things we encountered were an abattoir and a neolithic burial site (both of which, I never knew were there).
Everyone enjoyed the walk, and we are all looking forward to the next long walk in March.
