Well, with all this great weather, the crew decided to take off on the Sunday for a bit of a ramble down in the Surrey countryside. Shaz recently picked up a couple of books of country walks close to London and we are hoping to do a few while the good weather lasts.
Last Sunday it was the 15km walk from Gomshall to Guildford. Just an hour on train from London, we arrived in Gomshall full of energy and ready for a good day in the english countryside. With the sun on the backs, we rambled our way through gently sloping farmland and the quite impressive Blackheath Forest (being pine and fern, it was very reminiscent of NZ).
Of course, not country walk should be short of a couple of country pubs. First stop was about 4km in at the William IV, where I was able to have a couple of very good half pints from the Surrey Hills brewery, which was just down the road. Refreshed farm our liquid stop, we carried on to The Villages, on the far edge of the Forest, for a good little lunch out in the garden bar. Fuelled up, we headed out for the last half of the walk to Guildford. Arriving at Guildford close to 6pm, we were a bunch of very tired, but very happy ramblers. I'm looking forward to the next outing.
6 comments:
Accidentally posted something to Joe's blog above. Proof that I'm no multi tasker.
I like the look of that rambling. Though all that walking does seem to get in the way of a good pint.
don't worry, we still managed to fit in many a pint, needed to in that heat!
Good to see the Touch Ball got out for a stroll aswell, Did Rich carry it the whole way?
you'd think those two were parted at birth!
You sure Rambling is'nt a codename for a Flamer get together?
JT
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