tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post9219651561013908343..comments2024-03-28T11:16:38.801+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: A Traverse of the High Weald and Ashdown Forest (Horsted Keynes to Forest Row or East Grinstead)Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-67129313599657087342017-11-25T23:00:23.594+00:002017-11-25T23:00:23.594+00:00At last a sunny Saturday - w=gorgeous-sunshine in ...At last a sunny Saturday - w=gorgeous-sunshine in fact: a magical windless day. N=9 enjoyed it, three (four?) on the Victoria train, one on an earlier Thameslink train, making five who caught the bus to Horsted Keynes. “Events, dear boy, events” (Harold Macmillan, whose house is passed on this walk) meant four others who took the specified Thameslink train arrived late and had to share a taxi (no more expensive per person than the bus actually). They caught us up at lunch, but then as they were sandwich eaters left first and we did not see them again. <br /><br />This combination walk produces a lovely contrast between morning (gentle Wealden fields, woods and hills) and afternoon (heathland with some extensive views). Autumn colour was over apart from some remaining dead leaves on oaks, but the heath in the afternoon was a symphony of browns. Lunch was nice but the two shared plates of “English tapas” (a sausage roll and a selection of Spanish tapas) was perhaps a bit much when one had jumbo fish and chips to follow. <br /><br />In Forest Row three went to the Chequers Inn, two to Taeffels cafe. One got the bus back to Haywards Heath. Four of us walked under a pale crescent moon and stars up the old railway line to East Grinstead - a lovely night walk, the first of many this winter we hope.Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09314024151810191831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-16628338303716861472017-11-21T08:40:48.432+00:002017-11-21T08:40:48.432+00:00Thanks with anticipation Stargazer!Thanks with anticipation Stargazer!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com