Category: Walk

Day 88: ‘Elim’ – Brown Bread Street – Battle – Westfield – Three Oaks – Guestling Woods – Hastings Country Park – Hastings (East Hill – Old Town – Rock-a-Nore Beach)

23.1 miles – The shining perfection of a cloudless early autumn morning, the cloudy restlessness of a late summer afternoon,

Day 87: Southease – Firle Beacon – Alfriston – Wilmington Down – Jevington – Willingdon – Hankham – Herstmonceux – ‘Elim’

23.6 miles – Sunshine to the north and south but surly clouds and rain above; some shame-faced sunny moments brightening

Day 86: Truleigh Hill – Devil’s Dyke – Pyecombe – Blackcap – Balmer Down – Loose Bottom – Swanborough Hill – Breaky Bottom – Rodmel – Southease

21.7 miles – Thick mist thinning, and clouds clearing towards noon to give a warm and sunny afternoon A helpful

Day 85: Manorfarm Down – Graffham Down – Bignor Hill – Amberley – Rackham Hill – Washington – Chanctonbury Ring – Upper Beeding – Truleigh Hill

27.6 miles – A thick mist, thinning towards noon, heavy rain in the afternoon A long and perhaps unexpectedly rather

Day 84: East Meon – Butser Hill – Buriton – Harting Downs – Beacon Hill – Cocking Down – Manorfarm Down

20.4 miles – blessed rain, soft mist, a little sunshine later I left East Meon as the first drops of

Day 83: Winchester – Chilcomb – Cheesefoot Head – Gander Down – Exton – Old Winchester Hill – East Meon

19.1 miles – Misty to start with, dissolving into hazy sunshine with mushy clouds later I left Winchester while most

Day 82: INTERMISSION III – Aside for Ornithologists and Musicians

I need to preface this post with the admission that its contents are my musings and guesswork while on the

Day 82: INTERMISSION II – Sunset – Moonrise

When the sun sets on a conscious dream the moon rises to carry the traveller through. The dream was to

Days 71 – 82 – INTERMISSION

I slept for an hour-and-a-half in the afternoon and fourteen hours that night. I spare my delicate reader the description

Day 70: Farley Mount – Sparsholt – Winchester

5.1 miles – A comforting breeze, grey-flannels skies and caressing, light rain I slept appallingly. Perhaps it was the hard

Day 69: Clarendon Palace – Pitton – Middle Winterslow – Broughton – King’s Somborne – Farley Mount

19.2 miles – The sun valiantly vanquishing the drear clouds to leave a hot, dusty afternoon I would not have

Day 68: Boyton Down – Roman Road – Wilton – Salisbury – Clarendon Palace

19.7 miles – Grey-rinse skies, with occasional desultory rain, golden sunshine at day’s close On the map the Roman road,

Day 67: Tucker’s Grave – Lullington – Oldford – Chapmanslade – Warminster – Sutton Veny – Tytherington – Boyton Down

19.6 miles – old-floor-cloth grey skies, warm, viscous airs I decided to take the quickest and easiest route to Winchester,

Day 65: Hawkesbury Upton – Little Sodbury – Old Sodbury – Tormarton – Marshfield – Batheaston – Bath Spa (Youth Hostel)

19.3 miles – A typical lovely English summer’s day The glorious place names of yesterday and today are all genuine,

Day 64: Uley – Nibley Knoll – Wotton-under-Edge – Ozleworth Bottom – Hawkesbury Upton

17.8 miles – Militant clouds, troublous airs What a feast of place names! I was awakened at 6:00 by Archie,

Day 63: Birdlip – Buckholt Wood – Painswick Beacon – Painswick – Standish Wood – King’s Stanley – Coaley Peak – Uley

21.5 miles – Clouds with sun later but… …But it wasn’t about the weather today ut about the forrest. I

Day 62: Winchcombe – Cleeve Hill – Lineover Wood -Leckhampton Hill – Birdlip

17.2 – miles – Sun and clouds playing catch-me-if-you-can in a merry breeze The rain played catch-me-if-you-can too – and

Day 61: Chipping Campden – Broadway – Stanton – Stanway – Didbrook – Winchcombe

15.1 miles – ‘wetting rain’ followed by forgiving sunshine. ‘Wetting rain’ is an expression my mum used to use. It

Day 60: Alveston – Stratford-upon-Avon – Milcote Station – Long Marston – Lower & Upper Quinton – Chipping Campden

18.6 miles – Rolling, billowing grey clouds, which released a single golden egg of sunshine I was once given a