This is a last-minute change of plan owing to illness and injury (our first substitution walk has now itself been substituted). Trains: Victoria 09.42, Denmark Hill 09.52, Bromley South 10.04, arr Farningham Road 10.20. (The train’s final destination is Gillingham.) Tickets are slightly complicated because Farningham Road and Otford are Read more
Train: Victoria 8.54, Clapham Junction 9.01, East Croydon 9.10, arr. Eastbourne 10.17. The weather promises to be sunny and this is a walk largely on the open downs, so please bring sun protection and water. The walk is about ten miles. We start by going slightly inland, across a golf Read more
Saturday 7 June. The weather forecast for this walk was pretty dire – heavy rain showers, possibility of a hail storm and even a chance of thunder and lightning, just to add to the drama. I expected it to be a washout but whatever showers there may have been, they Read more
NB This is a change of walk from published programme. Train: London St Pancras 9.07 arrive Dover 10.13 (Or, cheaper but twice the time, Victoria 8.10 arrive Dover 10.09). NB No freedom pass on high speed. Buy a return to Deal. Return trains from Deal at 28 and 32 minutes past Read more
24 May. This is one of my favourite walks. It is somehow a particularly green walk. You get immersed in the hills and meadows of the East Sussex weald. From Stonegate, ten of us made our way to Burwash for lunch, where we were joined by an intrepid eleventh who Read more
Trains: Depart London Liverpool Street @ 09.30 – arrive Manningtree @ 10,25 [fast train to Norwich but will stop at Stratford, 09.37]. Please buy a return ticket to Manningtree. [NB: there’ll be some TFL tube line closures this weekend, so please check your route to the station on tfl.gov.uk]. Return trains times from Manningtree are Read more