Through the medium of speech telephony, our duo convey their latest exploits:
Just 10 km into today's calmer and drier walk, we passed the nominal half-way mark in our journey from York to Minden for the joint celebration of Yorkshire Day and Minden Day. We needed no more excuse than this to pause in the nearest village, Beek, for a celebratory cafe stop. 
Yet another proprietor was left trying to make sense of the explanation we gave for our being there, while the locals were entertained by the spectacle of us attempting, and largely failing, to drink the cappucino amaretto accompanying a delicious cheese baguette without ending up covered in the whipped cream topping (Chris cheated by deftly spooning aside the cream).
When we set off again, we were shocked to find ourselves walking uphill. In Holland, which as everybody knows, is famously flat. Not only that, but we soon entered, of all things, a forest, more reminiscent of the countryside we were expecting to see at the end of our walk, and a welcome foretaste, at that.
By the 24 km mark, we were glad to find a coffee shop in Terborg for our second course, apple cake and coffee, opposite a music shop with the widest range of melodion accordions we have ever seen, and we've looked at a fair few, being that way inclined. Another opportunity to confuse a shopkeeper with an explanation of why we were there.
After a comparatively hard finishing section, we set out to reconnoiter tomorrow's route, only to encounter awkward pathways and closed roads - a local version of Glastonbury is in preparation. Our progress will hopefully not be impeded. We're doing well, but we are looking forward to our day off in two day's time. The Army have been in touch and will be lending support after that. The countdown to 1st August continues and we're feeling confident we will reach our goal.
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