Seaford to Eastbourne (Nov 19th)

Hazy clearing to sunshine, light wind mild for time of year. 11.5 miles. Great to be back on the trail walking down to the coast from Seaford station and soon drinking tea beside a martello tower, then set of to the east.     It wasn’t long before starting the first large chalk cliff which [...]

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Brighton to Seaford (July 30th)

14.1 miles, cloudy clearing to blue sky, hot. The train ride to Brighton is quite a long one and today from Gatwick onwards the trains were crammed (guess they had seen the forecast), Brightons station is a really impressive structure but today it was a swarm of people and i was keen to get down to [...]

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Worthing to Brighton (July 27th)

11.9 miles. overcast and hot. Getting down to the shore line at Worthing  and looking east reveals yet more miles of shingle but just behind this is a walking/cycle route which is much kinder on the feet. The views are nice enough and it was surprisingly quiet for the time of year, along here were quite [...]

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Wavy line

The straight line distance from Parkstone to Worthing is 69.6 miles, my coast walk between these two points was 184.2 miles, so some stretches of the coast are more than a wavy line. Whats also obvious from the above screen shots of my route on google earth is that i haven’t explored every possible nook [...]

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Pagham to Worthing (July 5th)

23.0 miles, clear sky am gradually clouding over. At 6am sitting on the side of Pagham harbour life really couldn’t have been much more perfect, i worked my way around the natural harbour which is much of salt marsh and amongst the myriad of species were heron, little egret, peewit and shell duck, i came upon a fox wandering amongst [...]

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