Hard labour in the Trent Valley

Day 10: let’s say it was character-building. Easily half of the footpaths on our route were ploughed and planted with crops, overgrown with head-high nettles and brambles, or simply non-existent. We hacked through undergrowth, we crawled under barbed wire. We swished through 7-foot high corn in the pouring rain, we trod carefully over rows of carrots, we splashed through cattle slurry. We crossed 23 stiles (smashing the previous daily record) - some were distinctly unsafe and for others we needed Richard and his secateurs, or perhaps a chainsaw, to clear enough vegetation to squeeze over them. We walked well over a mile extra due to enforced detours, and took our lives in our hands on country roads with speeding traffic.

Still, somehow we got here! Today was the first day when it was just the two of us all day

. So it seems appropriate for our Track of the Day to be the friendship duet from Don Carlos, where a tenor and a baritone unite in friendship and love of liberty.