3 Men on a walk 2017: Around Lamberhurst in the wet

Lamberhurst Kilndown loop

Autumn seems to have swept in rather suddenly. September is typically a warm quiet weather time in the UK but as soon as it turned September, Atlantic fronts have bought cold and wet weather across us and today was no exception. The forecasters predicted 50% showers through the morning, then a slight lull for an hour or so before the chances of rain crept up during the afternoon.

Expecting to get wet we kept our walk options to local and short! Lamberhurst fits this bill precisely because the many intersecting paths meant we could adjust our walk to the weather. And as it happens we really only had one very heavy shower plus a couple of mild ones so we managed a pretty decent 7 miler.

Of course there is another good reason for choosing Lamberhurst. The Chequers is a lovely old Inn and a favourite of ours and as we hadn't supped there for about a year we felt we needed to call in and say "Hello".

The route we chose took us through one of the famous UK Vineyards; through Scotney Castle park; then up through the woods to Kilndown before we returned through the Scotney Castle Hop fields and back tot he car. IT was a nice little leg-stretcher and if we hadn't been deluged on whilst right out in the open fields, we might have thought we had gotten away without getting wet at all. Fortunately, the sunshine followed and in the 20 mins it took us to reach the pub we had dried out again.