We decided to finish our Easter holidays with an uber-walk! Most of the routes I have blogged about are between 18-25km. However this time, Marc and I decided to take on two walks at once and cover around 40km in one day. We only decided this on the train on the way to Bearsted! I’ll split the walk into two posts, in case some of you plan to follow the official sections of the route. The first half of our…
The walk from Cuxton to Detling isn’t quite as amazing as the previous walk through so many bluebell woods BUT it did have some gorgeous views. Plus the few patches of bluebells were spectacular this week. It is still an excellent walk for flowers! We were both really glad we escaped London for the day! Especially as the High Speed train makes it very quick and easy to get to the start of the walk! The weather was a little grey…
This is the sixth section on the North Downs Way to Dover. It starts in the lovely village of Otford, and finishes in Cuxton, close to Rochester. There is a good mixture of walking along the top of the Downs, though open countryside and through gorgeous woodland. There is quite a lot of up-and-down sections on this walk, but the effort is definitely worth it for the views. If you need a map for this walk, I found one online…
I have LOVED walking along the North Downs way so far! This walk from Oxted to Otford does have a few sections close to roads, (not as much as the previous section!) but it makes up for that with some other lovely parts through the Surrey and Kent countryside. We started early in the morning in March, when the world was pretty misty. Slowly the mist burned away, to show the beautiful scenery of the Surrey Hills. The North Downs…