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13th June 2012 Hiking - Walking: Two hills - Surrey Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: 7 (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Tuesday 12th June 2012 – travelling with late walk – mainly rain :( We packed up and were on the way to the shuttle just before 9 and were loaded by 10 for a 10.20 crossing. We woke up to blue skies but it soon clouded over and when we got off the shuttle it was pouring with rain as expected :( Kent was a deluge and although we did see some Oust houses which I was hoping to see the journey was pretty dire and depressed us both. We were aiming for Bewl water for lunch and when we got there it was £4 each to get in!!!! We only wanted to sit in the car park and eat our dinner so even though the woman offered us buy one get one free we still declined and left! We drove a bit further and parked near some ruins you had to pay to go into and just sat in the car park – we could see them and that was enough on such a wet and fowl day:( It didn’t help that we got lost a couple of times either! We eventually plugged the sat nav in because our England map is abit rubbish. Arrived at Ewhurst about 4 and had a cuppa in the car park – it wasn’t raining!! We read then met up with Rob and had a lovely evening. We went for a long walk and saw a deer, a fox and a woodpecker and lots of early marsh Orchids Went to the pizza express in cranleigh for a meal and chat. He had so much to tell us with Ukraine, wales, camping in Oxfordshire and all sorts! We came back and parked the van in the car park, got it ready for the night then sat in here with rob and looked at photos and had a good chat:) Wednesday 13th June 2012 – walk **** sunny periods Amazingly woke up to blue skies!!! That was a surprise with the forecast. Rob popped in to say hello before work. We set off on the Two hill walk – Holmbury Hill and Pitch Hill from Sayers Croft at about 10 a.m. We stopped at the village shop and got an apple, a choc bar, some fruit polos and a paper then followed the written instructions. It was really lovely, lots of great scenery, lots of woodland, hundreds of foxgloves, 2 deer, a fox, lots of squirrels, guinea fowl, horses, cows, sheep and a buzzard:) We didn’t get lost at all – amazingly for us! We had our picnic in two halves, one on the top of each hill. It was about 7 miles in total and we were out for 6 hours. I reckon we spent about an hour overall having a rest and eating lunch etc.. Some of it was quite muddy but considering the weather they have had not too bad. At one point we had to go through the grounds of a very posh school where the older kids were getting ready to play cricket and the tiny ones were playing in the woods. Very strange to be walking through there really! Then when we got back to Sayers Croft we had to walk through the grounds and felt a bit self conscious but were pleased when a couple of instructors did approach us because it would have seemed a bit weird to let two adults wander round with so many kids on site. We went into the canteen with Rob for dinner and had roast beef, 3 huge roast potatoes and cabbage and bread and butter pudding with custard :) We sat outside on the picnic table and ate it. Afterwards we went over to the high ropes with all the gear for me to have a go and it ended up with Mag having a go too!!! This is really not her cup of tea but she did really well :) I think even she was surprised when she completed the course! Went over to one of the accommodation blocks – the one with the best tv and watched the football! Thursday 14th June 2012 – a little walk and then home after 90 days away !!! Mag went for a walk around the fields before breakfast and saw the deer again:) Rob came over and we had cereal for breakfast together then we drove to Leith Hill which has a folly tower at the top (similar to the one near the orwell bridge). We did get a bit lost but found it after driving through some great countryside and villages. We came back to Sayers Croft for lunch – wraps and the salad bar – a choice of beef or chicken with carrot cake for afters:) We left about one and went to get the board I bought on e-bay before we went away. It was quite a complicated route but the sat nav got us there. Collected that ok then drove through dreadful traffic home, calling at South Mimms for a coffee and muffin. We got home about 6.30 and called at the dip on the way. There were quite a few out sailing so stopped for a chat with Mark. Got home and got the stuff that needed washing out of the van then had a much needed bath!!! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3555113269164.2144591.1012660562&t ype=1&l=86f072157f |
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