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If you're not planning to be glued to either or both of the wedding and football, what are you planning instead? I'm thinking about getting the train somewhere with a quiet beach or good walking, not sure exactly where yet. Roads and I guess shops will be nice and quiet.

Louisa Wrote:

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> I would recommend High Elms Country Park within

> the M25 and near the village of Downe. Some

> beautiful walks, always quiet, nice pubs for lunch

> dotted around the area. Well worth a visit.

>

> Louisa.


Seconded.


Also Footscray Meadows,Sidcup. Voted " Best Country Park In London" recently or have a relaxing time in Whitstable ( The Final Frontier )...

rendelharris Wrote:

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> Hopefully halfway up Leith Hill on the Surrey

> Loop, but generally, in the words of Michelle

> Shocked, "Anywhere but here" - here being within

> range of any television showing the

> sycophancyfest.


In my experience, half way down Leith Hill is preferable to being half way up!

It's the one that's down the road from Box Hill. Box Hill is a fair bit easier, I have found. Leith Hill is not by any means the hardest climb in the SE, but it is reasonably challenging for those like me who are not exactly what you would call hill climbers!


I know what you mean about the masochism involved with cycling and hills though! It does tend to kick in after a while.

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> It's a funny thing about cycling, after a while

> you do enjoy the uphills more than the downs.

> Don't know Leith Hill though.


Definitely, when I was twenty I hated climbing, now I'm nearly fifty I'll go miles out of my way for a good hill (in two weeks time we're making a 600 mile round trip to climb five miles of road - Great Dun Fell in Cumbria, the highest paved road in the UK). Leith Hill is about seven miles from Box Hill to the southwest, it's about 30% higher and 30% steeper than Box Hill. Usually do Leith first and Box on the way home, Box feels like a pimple after Leith!

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> That sounds nice, Sue. Whereabouts did you go?

> That reminds me I need to find a new group or

> partner for walking.


I'l walk with you RPC and we can discuss HonaloochieB's greatest comments on here !


I will have Max ( x 2 ) Buddy,Oscar,Honey,Oliver,Tilly,Nellie and Ells with me and all 9 Dogs


have agreed to be Members of The HonaloochieB Appreciation Society that we could start the process of forming :)


Whaddya reckon ?

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