Day 3 - July 22nd - Harleston to Ixworth - 30.2 miles

Read about why I have embarked on a 3-week 400-mile walk across Britain.

Add an extra five miles to the day by leaving my phone charger behind, but beautiful day, light breeze, patches of cloud and perfect temperature. Pass St Mary's at Rushall and then start across country on footpaths towards Diss. Idyllic rural landscape - Freisian cows, fields of barley, wheat, turnips and broad beans. Side-tracked by picking mushrooms in a field and find myself chased into a stream by an irate bull. On pass Diss, criss-crossing A-road, through rolling Suffolk farmland, heading for Walsham Le Willows, to find beautiful church to St Mary on the ley line. Feel second wind and keep walking, thinking to pitch tent outside the village, but walk until ten and get to Ixworth.

Suffolk farm on way to Walsham Le Willows

Walsham Le Willow

The bull that chased me into a stream on way to Diss