3 Men on a walk 2017: Around Groombridge to beat the rain

Groombridge loop

The only glimmer of hope in the weather forecast was to try and get some walking done by noon because a very cold, wet and windy weather front was slipping down across the UK and would reach us about lunchtime. So we planned for an early start - well 9-30 am is early in retirement - from a close location and that had to be Groombridge.

We quickly knocked out a 7.5 mile loop which is about 2.5 hrs walking and hoped that dear old Carol the weather lady had got her calculations right. As it happened she was spot on because we finished the loop at 12-15 and no sooner had our muddy boots been taken off when it started to rain.

The path took us along a couple of old favourites; The High Wealdway and the old railway track but at this time of year the muddy tracks get very sticky and slippery and today was no exception. Still we got in a decent dose of exercise on what didn't look like a promising day and once back at the car we were only a short hop to "The Crown" for lunch where it could rain as hard as it liked!