The first nights sleep is over

Today is Tuesday morn

Blue sky the sun is shining

With hoar frost on the lawn.

 

Yesterday we had no hot water

No milk, noisy toilet, hard bed

Today we’re feeling much brighter

Big breakfast, now we’ve been fed.

 

We venture out into the sunshine

The mountain peaks topped white with snow

Rucksacks and boots are both ready

Get walking poles then off we go.

 

Joan said she has woken up tired

So tired she felt she could weep

She said she had spent the last hours

Cleaning the house in her sleep.

 

Two coffees we had in the morning

I thought that should do for a while

But we stopped for a coffee at booths

We had walked less that half of a mile.

 

In the country we walked several hours

We were than told to stand and smile

But with Barbara working the camera

We knew it would take quite a while.

 

Joan felt that her knees were going

I could here the creak of her bones

Not with climbing up a mountain

But at the river skimming stones.

 

After several more hours of walking

My feet felt they’d travelled too far

Next time we can meet at the end

You walk and I’ll go by car.