Day 3 - Coalville to Leicester

Today we left Derby at 5am and started walking at 5:38am from just outside Coalville. The journey was longer the previous two days and a bit tougher also because of the hills on the route to Leicester. There was some places where there was no pavement so we had to walk on the grass along the A50.

For Emmanuel it was particularly difficult for him because his brother in-law died the night before (in Florida). It was brave Emmanuel and his wife for him to continue with the walk. His mood was clearly different today because of that so I tried my best to keep his mind off things.
Coming up toward Leicester a car just half a mile ahead hit the central reservation and overturned. Although the driver was thankfully unharmed, it did make us reflect on how vulnerable we are walking along the road.

We arrived in Leicester around 10:40am, approximately 12 miles covered. We have now completed our 30 mile part of our journey. We were very, very exhausted but didn’t have any appointments to meet anybody. We will be back tomorrow to meet the Leicester Mayor the Racial Equality Council and the Highfield Youth Centre.

Dave Callow co-ordinated this day and he did a marvellous job to check the route and supplying us with water and fruit and driving us there and back home.

(Written by Khumbula Dube)