The train journey to Sheffield was fine, but the bus journey out to the Peak District certainly wasn't. It began with an argument with the bus driver who claimed that my disabled person's travel pass wasn't valid for travel until 09:30. I've been using it for sixteen years, so I know it is; passes for disabled people are enhanced in South Yorkshire. I was going to read to him the exact eligibilty criteria from a leaflet that I always keep in my wallet but he wasn't interested. I told I'm going to get on the bus and if he thinks I'm commiting a crime to go ahead and call the police. He didn't though of course. Interestingly as the journey progressed he refused to let on several children using passes...he obvious didn't know what he was doing.
The journey got worse though; I'd forgotten that the A57 road at Rivelin is closed and traffic going towards Manchester has to go on a diversion partially along the Hope Valley. This caused long traffic delays, and the two sets of roadworks made them even longer.
I got off the bus at Yorkshirte Bridge and walked down to the River Derwent and then join the Thornhill Trail. The light was good for photographing the carved wooden animals along the Trail.
I reached Thornhill and then headed west across the fields to Hope.
I took the easy path from Hope to Castleton, walking alongside the River Noe. The bus station at Castleton has been recently modernised, but there aren't any timetables yet so I didn't know when the next bus was due (I can't get the internet on my mobile phone) and so I had to just sit and wait...for 45 minutes.
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