12.5 miles Miles walked since starting. . . Mud Glorious Mud this walk certainly turns into! Our adventure commences in Hastings early in the morning where we park in the Old Town and meet Heather for a lift to Rye Harbour. Having wrapped up with lots of warm layers we set off on the long straight hard path alongside the beach through Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. The sun is trying very hard to break through the clouds and even brings us a slight rainbow. The first half of today’s meander along the coast is flat flat flat... The groins at Winchelsea Beach and Pett Level have always been [...]

4.5 miles Miles walked since starting. . . Only a few weeks after our long ramble on the shingle beach alongside the Lydd ranges I return with an unenthusiastic teenager to complete the stretch from Camber sands to Rye. As the sun was shining and my 40 year old VW beetle, Dougal, hadn’t ‘stretched his legs’ so to speak for many months we took him to Rye Railway Station and caught the bus to Camber. As we wandered along Camber Sands beach the sun was full of promise bringing out many ladies and gentlemen from their winter hibernation. Tourist beaches have such a different sense of place in [...]

10 miles On a cold bleak January day we head down to Camber Sands, catch a bus to the sleepy village of Lydd and onwards to The Pilot at Dungeness. Here starts my ambitious jaunt around the coast of England, maybe Wales and Scotland too - who knows?? Setting off on the shingle towards the two lighthouses the sun is trying to shine between the thick grey clouds casting a menacing yet moodily atmospheric light over the distant nuclear power station. Dungeness A, originally connected to The National Grid in 1965, is no longer in use; however its sister Dungeness B still provides power to the people! So.. why [...]