Getting ready, Hever Nov 2005
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.
The die hard walkers - Sarah, Craig, Nola, Julia and Kevin
Showing posts with label Walking 2005. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walking 2005. Show all posts
Saturday, April 01, 2006
View - Hever to Leigh Nov 2005
View 2 - Hever to Leigh Nov 2005
Originally uploaded by Megan Shields.
Lovely autumnal view from a walk late last year...
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Walking in Kent and birthday celebrations
Nola's Strollers (minus Owen and Finbarr + Sarah and Nola) got together again and went for a gorgeous autumnal walk in Kent on Saturday. Walked from Hever to Leigh (pronounced Lie), a distance of 9 miles. It was absolutely gorgeous - a nice sunny day (amazingly as it had rained all week and we didn't think we'd get to walk) and the colours of the countryside were amazing. I do like living in Surrey, but Kent really is a wonderful place to walk. Lots of Oast Houses , and generally just beautiful countryside. Not called the Garden of England for nothing I guess!
This walk was a tad on the muddy side (which made me thankful that I hadn't chosen the walk Time Out had described as muddy...) and we only got lost once. Well, not really lost, but the directions didn't make sense but then all of a sudden we were where we were meant to be anyhow. Which was just as well as it was getting late (we'd misjudged the time a bit) and poor old Nola was getting a wee bit cold. As we all were actually!
We passed some amazing houses - beautifully kept old places, swimming pools, tennis courts, and immaculately manicured gardens. How the other half live... But possibly the highlight was coming around the corner of a church through the churchyard (towards the end of the walk so all looking a bit bedraggled and all muddy) into an extremely posh looking wedding... If we'd been about half an hour later we would have seen the bride, but instead we had to satisfy ourselves with lots and lots of young men (no doubt all called Tristan and Tarquin and things like that) all in tails - not just the ushers! Very funny - although we were tempted to loiter we decided they would probably frogmarch us off the property!!
Then it was home, shower, quick scoff and off out back into town to have a birthday drink with Owen at the Prince Regent pub on Marylebone High Street. We three were all a bit unsociable as we got a seat and just stayed sat down the whole time - too tired to stand! But Owen was understanding :-). And despite the comments on thre website review I thought it was a good pub. So a very long but very good day all up.
This walk was a tad on the muddy side (which made me thankful that I hadn't chosen the walk Time Out had described as muddy...) and we only got lost once. Well, not really lost, but the directions didn't make sense but then all of a sudden we were where we were meant to be anyhow. Which was just as well as it was getting late (we'd misjudged the time a bit) and poor old Nola was getting a wee bit cold. As we all were actually!
We passed some amazing houses - beautifully kept old places, swimming pools, tennis courts, and immaculately manicured gardens. How the other half live... But possibly the highlight was coming around the corner of a church through the churchyard (towards the end of the walk so all looking a bit bedraggled and all muddy) into an extremely posh looking wedding... If we'd been about half an hour later we would have seen the bride, but instead we had to satisfy ourselves with lots and lots of young men (no doubt all called Tristan and Tarquin and things like that) all in tails - not just the ushers! Very funny - although we were tempted to loiter we decided they would probably frogmarch us off the property!!
Then it was home, shower, quick scoff and off out back into town to have a birthday drink with Owen at the Prince Regent pub on Marylebone High Street. We three were all a bit unsociable as we got a seat and just stayed sat down the whole time - too tired to stand! But Owen was understanding :-). And despite the comments on thre website review I thought it was a good pub. So a very long but very good day all up.
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