On an extremely sunny Mothers Day having dropped Kirsten at work we speed down the A21 towards Hastings – as this is just a short walk we decide to do it in both directions much to the delight of Victoria and Bryony.  Therefore we couldn’t commence the walk until we had kicked a stone along the beach from St. Leonards to The Old Town.

As this was Hastings and we were passing The Dolphin chip shop we had to experience our first ‘Chips’ of this coastal walk and they didn’t disappoint.

The ‘actual’ walk commenced on the harbour jetty – wow what a view!  The clear bright spring skies gave blessings to a view right back to where we had started at Dungeness and in the opposite direction, beyond Hastings pier, to Beachy Head.  The shingle beach was busy with families enjoying the long awaited sunshine and fishermen bringing in their nights haul with the inevitable hubbub of seagulls looking for the odds and ends…

We were a few months too soon for the opening of the pier, which has been severely damaged by storms and a fire over the last couple of decades, but will rise from the ashes sometime this summer – It’s Madness!!

Our walk concludes along the busy promenade of Hastings and St. Leonard’s kicking stones and dodging cyclists and dog walkers along the way, finishing back at the car for a visit to say hello to family.