After reading The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane we walked a section of The Icknield Way from Linton to Great Chesterford. Linton is beautiful and the weather was outstanding - sun wall to wall. As we left the village we passed by Linton Zoo, as MacFarlane said with the sounds of the Serengeti calling to us, and pressed on into the countryside.
After a short while we went through our first holloway of hawthorn and spindle coming out into an elevated landscape of barley fields with ash tree perimeters reaching as far as the eye could see. The sun was full out when we began our return leg and we sort shelter by the path under a greengage tree and had lunch.
We met one person on our walk, a fellow Icknield Way traveller, who had covered 15 miles and was heading for Linton. We chatted all the way back and enjoyed a pint together by the river before he caught his bus back home and we pressed on to Essex.
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