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For both, this was simply to be a week’s holiday to celebrate Jasmin’s birthday, following the route that starts at Kirk Yetholm, close to their home in Scotland, and finishes at Edale near her parents’ place in Derbyshire. ‘When she first suggested it,’ laughs Konrad, ‘I said that taking the TransPennine Express to her parents for her birthday was a great idea!’

That evening they ran two extra miles from Keld to their eventual bed for the night. ‘It was a really nice family-run B&B,’ recalls Jasmin. ‘They weren’t expecting anyone and their boiler was being repaired, so they put the kettle on and gave us bowls of water to wash our muddy legs. We’d expected to eat in the pub so we asked if we could have our cooked breakfast for tea instead. We had a fry-up in the evening and cereal and toast the next morning!’

Their journey so far had been a joy, taking them over the Cheviot hills floating on a sea of cloud, where they had met a herd of wild goats – a highlight for Konrad as a fan of those much-maligned creatures, and for Jasmin a trigger for an unexpected craving for goat’s cheese.