The first morning's walk ended with lunch here, some sort of sports arena on the edge of the Barracks. I'd been lingering at the back of the group, and on the final stretch Harry asked me to go back with him up to the wall to help the last few people down, which I gladly agreed to. Consequently I was in the final group down from the wall, and as we entered the stadium we were greeted with cheers from everyone already there - a fantastic feeling!

I thought lunch was really good - a combination of being more than ready to eat, and not having had the same lunch every day for the past five days (ie by the end of the week I'd definitely had enough, as had everyone else!). I was particularly pleased to see the delicious sweet peanuts I'd come to know and love from dinner the night before and breakfast that morning. I did, however, foolishly ask "how am I supposed to eat these nuts without chopsticks?" before I realised how stupid that was. :-) Then someone gave me some chopsticks and I chowed down with relish.

Having arrived so late, lunch was pretty hurried for me - some people had been waiting for over an hour, having yomped round the wall really quickly, so they set off after I'd only been there about ten minutes. But that was OK, I was happy to be at the back again, in absolutely no hurry to stop walking the Wall.