Mileage 14:41 Miles
Time 5.0 Hours
Elevation 336 Feet
The Route
We have defiantly picked the wrong week to walk, it's so hot but with a planned slightly earlier start we do get a little break from walking in full sun but it soon heats up.
Also a shorter section today starting along the promenade then up onto the cliff tops & through a mobile home park where the road is closed off due to cliff falls and the vans have moved back. But as yet no café so no breakfast yet. On the beach front a tempting site of a café but it's closed!
On we go across sand dunes on the sea front but short lived we are then coming inland, a poorly signed path up farm roads before turning onto country lanes for several miles, unfortunately we do not see the sea again as due to more cliff falls the path stays inland. So no café we must have bypassed them all in the diversions.
Continuing along the road we come to a flooded section the water is about 300mm deep (a foot in old money) & no way round reeds beds growing in the wetlands right up to the road. with no other viable option we stop a very nice person in his car and hitch a lift through the flood.
Squashed into the back of his car he drives us through and drops us off on the other side. So at least we still have dry feet & boots. Continuing along the road the last few miles drag on, hunger setting in, so today hot & hungry but we reach our accommodation, an air B & B room with Alice, she is out but we have the key box code & phone her to check it's ok to drop some of our things off & head into town in search of food, its under a mile but in the heat seems more, the first bakery & we are in. Food! Feeling more alive we head further into town heading for the beach, past a lovely church, flint & sandstone St Edmund King & Martyr Church.
A cooling off period in a grassy shady area outside the church resting on a bench I start to do some of the blog on my phone. So much harder than on the pc. Cooled & rested we go down to the beach where put on our swimming togs & take a dip in the sea, it's warm, salty! & very & relaxing.
Off to the coop to pick up some supplies followed by the pub for a welcome drink & then back to our accommodation.
 |
| Here's where our engineers do all their tinkering to keep our brewery brewing and our distillery distilling |
No comments:
Post a Comment