tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post754882800888018760..comments2024-03-27T21:54:24.933+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: A plucky looky at spooky PluckleyAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-72611658157893838642017-08-27T19:09:28.396+01:002017-08-27T19:09:28.396+01:008 assembled on the platform but 2 stayed behind to...8 assembled on the platform but 2 stayed behind to await a third whose car journey had been delayed so lets make that n=9. Sadly we never saw the 3 again.<br />Six of us ambled off in "perfick" w=sunny-and-warm weather to take an early lunch at the Swann Inn who were fully booked but salads, burgers and pizzas were on offer from food vans there for a "festival". (Is it just my inner Victor Meldrew that finds bog standard disco mix music - Stayin Alive, I will Survive - utterly depressing as it booms out over quiet idyllic countryside... Whatever)<br />We did not linger too long at the Black Horse and were all too scared to do the ghost walk and soon we six split- 2 doing the short version, 3 the medium and me who did an abridged version of the long walk, leaving out the pub at Egerton to give me and my dodgy knees a fighting chance of a quick drink at the Dering Arms at Pluckley Station which I reached at 3.45pm for a £4.80 lager shandy!! I wish I had gone to the Rose and Crown at Mundy Edge which was packed and looks to be doing great business. The Dering Arms was virtually empty and had all the atmosphere of an empty attic. A quick drink and then the 15.57 to Ashford for the HS1 to whisk me back to the East End in 30 minutes. A charming, quiet walk with perhaps a little too much tarmac but nevertheless a lovely day out with SWC regulars.PeteBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02135468832090264900noreply@blogger.com