12 miles walked today
535 miles walked in total
(average 12.44)
Sam and I were ready to walk this morning just
before ten thirty. The weather wasn’t
too good to begin with so we had tee shirts, sweatshirts and coats! I love British summers! We hadn’t gone too far before it started to
rain and we hoped it wouldn’t last all day.
The first stretch took us along the prom from the
pier up to Bishopstone Glen and we were in a sheltered, wooded area before
heading out through fields to get to Reculver.
The rain stopped and the sun came out and we started to gently
steam! According to our guide book, the
Romans built the fortress Regulbium in the third century to guard the Wantsum
Channel which cut off the land to the east.
(This land makes up the Isle of Thanet – now Margate Kent
As we made our way along the prom to Birchington –
today’s been all promenade walking – we discovered we were walking the Viking
Coastal trail, a brand new cycle route opened today! We saw a few cyclists and it was quite sad
that so few people had turned out for the inauguration. At Birchington, we’d watched some kites being
flown and couldn’t work out why they were so far out to sea. As we rounded the bay, it all made perfect
sense. This was the new sport –
windsurfing but with a kite. Not sure of
the technical term – kite boarding perhaps?
We made our way up to the grassy slopes along the
top of the cliffs to walk along, but could have carried on along the lower
promenade. We followed this all the way
along to Westgate where we stopped for a breather – by this time, the coats
were off as it had turned very warm indeed.
We kept looking behind us though and a big black cloud followed us all
day.
It wasn’t too far now to Margate Margate , it was a right hand turn down to Dover
As we strode into Margate
for postcards and sticks of rock, it started to rain quite heavily so we legged
it up to the station to catch the train back to the car at Herne Bay
