tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post8984915569362557549..comments2024-03-28T11:16:38.801+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Saturday Second Walk - Heaths, commons and woods of metropolitan SurreyAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-52356387676601260922016-11-26T23:33:52.196+00:002016-11-26T23:33:52.196+00:00N=20 on this walk, delighted by w=unexpected-sun-f...N=20 on this walk, delighted by w=unexpected-sun-for-the-first-two-hours-after-which-it-was-cloudy. The mix of woods and heaths and ponds on this walk looked especially pretty at this time of year, with autumn colours still good - gold on birch trees, yellow-green on understorey hazel, and brown on oak.<br /><br />The lunch pub, The Star, was very busy. It is 8 miles into the walk and it is probably just as well we arrived there a bit later when they were starting to get a few free tables. Nine of us lunched there that I know about - whether any faster walkers were turned away earlier, I do not know. The pub is deservedly popular as the menu is extensive and the service very cheerful. <br /><br />After lunch we walked through Ashtead Forest - magnificent oak colours - and then Epsom Common as stipulated: there was a fine red dusk sky here. We then went off piste in search of a pub on Epsom Common of which we had nice memories. That was either closed or being refurbished, but we found another - also very busy: pubs in these parts are doing good business, evidently - which served us wine, beer, teas or pudding according to choice. We then got the 18.40 something train from Epsom station.Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09314024151810191831noreply@blogger.com