Weather: Windy and cold
Distance: 25 km ( 15.5 miles)
Total Distance: 1924.6 miles
The forecast was dry so I decided late
to have a weekend walking. What I had
not realised was that the forecast was also cold and windy - very cold and very
windy!
I drove down from Coventry early and parked in
a side street and had a cup of tea from the flask I had bought with me. I then set off soon to realise that I was in
for a battle! The wind was sending waves
crashing onto the promenade at Bognor and it was a case of wave dodging to get
around some obstacles such as buildings.
I was well wrapped up but it still felt cold. I stopped at a telephone box in Bognor and
telephoned the B&B I had stopped last Autumn. They were not there but his mother was and
she said it would be OK to stay.
At Middleton-on-Sea my way was blocked
because there was no promenade and the tide was right in preventing me from
walking along the beach. The trek inland
did however give me a brake from the wind for a while. I decided not to take the first path back
down to the seafront since it was not evident that I would get anywhere and may
end up backtracking again.
Eventually the path led through a new
housing development and back to the sea.
Beyond that there was a mixture of official footpath and track to walk
along though much of it was in a poor condition.
Up into Littlehampton was a usual mix
of marinas and housing. I stopped on the
far side of the River Run as it appeared fairly sheltered before getting back
down onto the beach.
The remainder of the walk was along
promenades - Sussex already seems a concrete county.
After getting the bus back to Bognor I
was pretty tired, phoned home, bought a large packet of biscuits and a couple
of cans of beer and went to the Richards B&B. I was so tired that night that I did not feel
like going out, so stayed in with a packet of biscuits!
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