Day 5 Smardale adn Green Bell from Ravenstonedale

so its looking like a nice day, Nancy has her new boots so has decided to go for the hard walk ....great way to break them in....perhaps to great, she came home hobbling with blisters, but smiling just the same.  I on the other hand know my limits and so stayed on the easy walk.  Today we did a figure 8.  we started at a place called Ravenstonedale and off we went,  I was as usual decked out in my layers of plastic.  at coffee time we stopped on this pretty little bridge for our break.  I decided at this point it was time to shed the plastic which was a good thing, no sense going home soaked another day especially since it wasn't raining.  it was like walking in a sauna.  Again a hill appeared which took what seemed like forever to climb, at the top it was a little windy and cool but nothing to drastic.  A short while later we walked thru a farm yard.  From there it was down a path that use to be a railroad line. A little after 1 we gave up looking for a nice spot to have lunch and just sat down in the middle of the path and ate.  The rail line lead us past some old Lime Kilns they are huge and I think I have a picture to give you the idea.  I'm not total sure how these things worked but lime stone and coal were burnt and they ended up with some lime stuff that was spread on the fields.  Our guide gave us lots of details but it was actual to much so my mind was wandering,  We eventually came back to our coffee break bridge, then crossed over and went the other way...like in a figure 8 .  thru more fields past some cows that were giving us strange looks past what might have been a putting green and into another town and a pub which is where we waited for our ride home.  A pretty uneventful day but I did get in trouble for taking pictures when I was suppose to be paying attention to what seemed like another history lesson that was to much details.  The evening entertainment was a couple of folk singers who were awesome.  Beautiful voices,  some of the songs were nice but most were funny. Along with the songs they did a couple monologs too.  A good night

some of the limestone that was used in the kilns

a beautiful rainbow over the field. Note the stone walls

this is a sign at the farm that warns thief's that this yard is protected. 

Maria and I standing in front of the lime kiln, it only shows half the opening and then there is another layer of stone as tall as the piece you see us standing in front of