As forecast, conditions were wet on the day that I walked into Canterbury. But it wasn’t a heavy, soak-you-to-the-bones, mess-with-your-touch-screen, […]
Archive for ‘2018 Cherhill to Canterbury’
Aug 2018 “Pre-pilgrimage”
A walk from my home to Canterbury (starting point of Via Francigena to Rome)
Day 13 (4/Sep/2018): Warren Street to Chilham (23km)
I slept with the light on in my room at the Harrow Inn. I didn’t finish the dry, yet watery, […]
Day 12 (3/Sep/2018): Snodland (Leybourne Lakes Country Park) to Warren Street (30km)
(Not that Warren Street. This one’s a tiny hamlet near Lenham in Kent). The birds were a lot quieter waking […]
Day 11 (2/Sep/2018): Kemsing to somewhere near Snodland (20+km)
As I was sitting on the step of Matt’s unusual Airbnb (a recently “sold” house, unoccupied, but with furnishings in […]
Day 10 (1/Sep/2018): Tatsfield to Kemsing (17km)
Today was a mixed bag – sunshine and pleasant tracks for the first two thirds, followed by an somewhat hairy […]
Day 9 (31/Aug/2018): Reigate to Tatsfield (20km)
I left the Bridge House Hotel in Reigate after 11:00, having spent too much time trying to upload photos for […]
Day 8 (30/Aug/2018): Holmbury Saint Mary to Reigate Hill (22km)
My decision to stay at a hostel, 4km off the path of the North Downs Way, meant that I spent […]
Day 7 (29/Aug/2018): Puttenham to Holmbury St. Mary (21km)
The rain, which I don’t remember being forecasted at all, fell on the roof of the camping barn from late […]
Day 6 (28/Aug/2018): Church Crookham to Puttenham (17km)
When I left Jess’s house in Church Crookham at around 8:00am, I still hadn’t made up my mind whether to […]