A Day of Contrasts!
Rob, Rosie Anna and Solvig set off for Hove – a bit earlier than planned due to a cancelled train. I heard later that Barbara got a later train, and did the same walk although sadly we didn’t meet up. It was a very windy day with a fantastic wild sea, and we all enjoyed walking along the sea front towards the falling-down pier, which managed not to fall down while we were there! Continue reading HOVE TO BRIGHTON WALK – 7 OCTOBER
Our second walk with the London Blind Ramblers this year, this time the ‘elite’ section who wanted a longer and more challenging walk than they normally do. Pam obliged with a walk advertised as 11.2 miles and undulating, and nine (not very elite) Poly Ramblers turned out last Sunday to guide and support the group. Pam was relieved to find that we had sufficient Poly guides for the blind walkers. We soon arrived at Knockholt and set off along the edge of a golf course at a brisk pace. This continued through fields and Continue reading SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER: KNOCKHOLT CIRCULAR WITH LONDON BLIND RAMBLERS
From the station, we walked uphill to Manningtree church where we joined the Essex Way which we followed most of the day. We reached the waterfront and followed the Stour estuary to Mistley, famous for its twin church towers and its witch finder. We left the riverside to walk across pastures, woodlands – passing old oaks including Old Knobbley – and wheat fields. We had our picnic lunch Continue reading SATURDAY 22 JULY: MANNINGTREE to WRABNESS (ESSEX) (LINEAR)
After leaving Chigwell we enjoyed a relaxed walk through Roding Valley Meadows Local Nature Reserve and its lake onwards up through Buckhurst Hill and then up through the edge of Epping forest and its famous oaks, then onwards to the white timber-framed Elizabethan building which is Queen Elizabeth’s Royal Hunting Lodge, built for King Henry VIII in 1543. Continue reading SATURDAY 15th JULY: CHIGWELL to ENFIELD LOCK (LINEAR)
This was pretty much the perfect walk, nearly 15 miles & neatly divided into 3 parts. We left Lewes via a lovely walled garden where children rehearsed for what appeared to be a mediaeval pageant or perhaps, being Lewes something more alternative, & an unusually easy-going cat allowed itself to be played with by a small child & then seemed to join its family on a blanket for a picnic. We then flew – well, something like that – up the first mighty incline onto the South Downs Way & our first glimpse of the sea. The path curved around Continue reading SATURDAY 8 JULY: LEWES (CIRCULAR)
