The penultimate push

Back to the three of us walking on another BEAUTIFUL day. We started over the other side of the river Ouse from Rodmell at Southease Station off the A26.  Here is Andrew and Honor walking up the first hill to get onto the Downs.

We stopped at the highest trig point along this stretch to have bacon butties at around noon to keep us going.  Then we walked down into Alfriston .. which is actually the final point of the South Downs if you walk the full loop around via Eastbourne.

Alfriston looked very pretty in the sunshine as we walked down the Cuckmere Valley towards Litlington.

Half a mile on we got to the pub in Litlington, Farrow and Plough, where we met Granny P for lunch.  Delicious.

Thank goodness for Tom ...

Cousin Tom came too on this walk, and when Andrew had a mishap with the map reading and took us a good few miles out of our way, his good humour saved the day.

Here we are at the start setting out from Plumpton.

Another beautiful day - we have been SO lucky with the weather.

Stopping off for a break and some hay bale climbing.

Then things started to go badly wrong with the map reading!

We finally got to Rodmell at around 4pm.  Exhausted!  Good lunch at The Abergavenny Arms.  Then some slumbering as I drove home.  We must have walked around 12 or 13 miles.