New Year Day's Walk!

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New Year's Day - Not feeling too bright today - 2007 was such a hard and traumatic year for us both following the devastating ectopic pregnancy and subsequent events. So to cheer ourselves up we decided to go for a New Year Day's walk around Westerham and Chartwell (country home of Sir Winston Churchill), in Kent.

It was a lovely, if cold walk, crossing streams, meadows, parkland and rolling hills. As romantic as this sounds, the whole route was extremely muddy - we squelched and squelched, for the whole 3 hours of the walk in mud! We kept on meeting fellow walkers who encouraged us by saying the mud improved further along - but it never did. We still thoroughly enjoyed the walk.

There were some steep climbs to tackle, but the views were lovely; together with passing an attractive village called French Street and a pleasant meandering woodland path.

We imagined that the walk would be magnificent in the summer! Highly recommended.

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Photos

Winston Churchill statue at Westerham
Impressive statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Westerham. His country home, Chartwell, is a short drive from the pleasant town of Westerham.

New Year's Day walk
Lavinia ready to take on the mud!

Hmmm! Which way should I go...
Steve wisely contemplates his best route through the very muddy footpaths.

Mud, mud, glorious mud.
Lav navigates her way along the footpath very gingerly.

Lav hangs on for dear life!
Lavinia was so determined not to fall into the mud!