South Downs Way
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Walking from Lewes to Rottingdean
On a windy, sunny Sunday afternoon, I got my butt out of my usual, sometimes self-defeating patterns of weekend behaviour and took myself up into the Downs. I’m very lucky to have the South Downs National Park on my doorstep, and I have been rationing bits of it out to myself slowly. My brain forever Read more
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Walking from London Road Brighton to Hassocks
A bright and cold January Friday with no work left to do, and a flat as frigid as a Carry On matron. There was only one thing to do: walk across the ridge of the Downs, and feel the reassuring crunch of snow beneath my feet. I live just off Ditchling Road, which as the Read more
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South Downs Way: Bramber to Pyecombe
Following swiftly on from the section I did with D and T, I got straight back on my South Downs bullshit, as the kids would put it. My journey back to the ridge involved a train to Burgess Hill, then a deregulation-tastic £5.90 bus to the Downs village of Bramber. 10p of my change fell Read more