Setting off from home on a frosty Sunday afternoon with no particular route in mind, I found myself doing my regular saunter southbound on the Downs Link from Southwater. However, instead of following the usual route of the railway, I deviated off the main drag via a bridleway just past Read More
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High Weald Hike: Slaugham & Staplefield
Kept it nice and easy and very local for the first hike of 2021, venturing just a 15-min drive from Horsham to the High Weald. I parked in Staplefield (more about the village and its famous residents later), just by the cricket pitch, which proved to be a good starting/finishing Read More
Chatley Heath & Wisley Airfield
I’d been meaning to visit the old Admiralty semaphore tower at Chatley Heath for ages, but, little did I realise when I set off this morning, I’d be walking the length of a 1900m disused airstrip and lunching by a beautiful lake. Chatley Heath, near the village of Ockham in Read More
The Devil’s Bridge & Other Tales from France…
I was back in France last weekend to visit Papa Blue, and, as is now the custom, went in search of a few more historical treasures of the Corrèze and Lot departments. My planned visits (to Argentat and Mercœur) were curtailed by le crachin – persistent mizzly rain that only cleared Read More