Day 2: Chepstow to Bigsweir Bridge 8.9 miles

The stone marking the start.

Day 1 entailed Jane and Mark bringing us to Chepstow, and walking down to the start of the walk. I couldn't find it!! An ominous start to 170 miles of route finding. Eventually found the stone and walked back into Chepstow, found out B&B, said our goodbyes to Jane and Mark. We had a nice Italian meal and felt a little apprehensive about the next fortnight.
A slightly shorter day today as we get warmed up for the longer ones to follow. Bright and sunny all day, pity as we had packed waterproofs, brollies, gaiters, sou'wester, wellies, life preservers, emergency inflatables - in case the predicted rain, storms and flash flooding arrived/ which it didn't. We only saw 4 other walkers all day, until we were 50 metres from the B&B the we saw another group of 6. Very quiet but very pleasant walking. Mainly soft earth or grass which is great. Much of today was along the River Wye, either high up looking down or along the river bank. We had big open fields and small leafy tunnels, route finding fairly straight forward. Off to the local pub for fish and chips and a pint.