For me, three interesting little observations about the Pennine Journey. As I walked from Settle to Horton I had to scamper away from a group of skitty cows, they almost got me but I managed to do a runner and jump over a stile. I camped in Horton and went to the pub, the barman was telling us all that on this very day a man had been trampled to death by cows in Sussex. He really enjoyed telling us that!
As I hiked towards Buckden (great camp site, great hostess) down a wide grassed hill I saw two women ahead of me, as I got closer I could see that one of them had an enormous camera on a large tripod. One of them shouted to me "hello, we've been waiting for you!"
She explained that they were from BBC Look North and were doing a piece on tree planting and conservation. The reason why they waited was because they saw me up above and I was the ONLY hiker that was around, so they did a short interview. Where I had come from and where was I going, why do I like hiking, you know the usual stuff. They then asked me to walk back about 20 paces then walk past them making out there wasn't a large camera glaring at me. I dutifully did as I was told, then said goodbye. The lady shouted "you should be on Look North tonight", did I care, no, I was more concerned to rest my aching legs and buy a pint at the local pub.
What I didn't tell the reporter was that I could see she'd just been eating a sandwich or similar because I could still see the food bits stuck in between her teeth! Mind you, her teeth were great!