Hiking on the South Downs Way
Yesterday Mommas and I went hiking on
the east side of the
South Downs Way. We walked the ending loop starting from
Eastbourne.
We started by the inland part in the hills, mostly covered in
meadows and woods to Jevington, Alfriston, Litlington and Westdean.
Then we headed to the grassy coast (Birling Gap and Beachy Head).
The white chalk cliffs offer really great scenery, but it was a bit
too crowded for me. Also, we saw a large number of hill-runners all
along the route. Gives me some ideas
.
The weather was really sunny, but also windy and quite cool.
Perfect for hiking ! This was supposed to be a long day hike
(around 35km), but we ended up with a rather traditional 9am-5pm
day
. I guess I'm not very good at evaluating speed on
rather "flat" terrain.
A pretty nice picture of
Beachy Head on
wikipedia.
