Itinerary

Sept. 3 Arrive in Manchester. Staycity Serviced Apartments, 40 Laystall Stree, Manchester City Center
Sept. 4: Travel to St Bees:  TransPennine Express,  Seacote Hotel 

Sept. 5: St Bees to Ennerdale Bridge. 14 miles (22.5km) Low Cock How  
Sept. 6: Ennerdale Bridge to Rosthwaite. 14.5 miles (23km) YHA Barrowdale
Sept. 7: Rosthwaite to Grasmere. 9 miles (14.5km) YHA Grasmere Butharlyp Howe
Sept. 8: Grasmere to Patterdale. 8.5 miles (13.5 km) YHA Patterdale
Sept. 9: Patterdale to Shap. 16 miles New Ing Lodge
Sept. 10, 11: Shap to Kirkby Stephen. 20 miles Kirkby Stephen Hostel
Sept. 12: Kirkby Stephen to Keld. 13 miles (21km) Park House Campsite
Sept 13: Keld to Reeth. 11 miles (17.5km) The Buck Hotel
Sept. 14: Reeth to Richmond. 11 miles (17.5km) The Castle Tavern
Sept. 15: Richmond to Smotherley. 24 miles Cote Ghyll Mill
Sept. 16: Osmotherley to Chop Gate. 13 miles The Buck Inn
Sept. 17: Chop Gate to Glaisdale. 17 miles Arncliffe Arms
Sept. 18,19: Glaisdale to Robin Hood's Bay. 19 miles (30.5km) Grosvenor Hotel 

Sept. 20: Travel to Winchester  Westgate Hotel 
Sept. 21 Winchester Mercure Winchester Wessex, Paternoster Row Hotel  Tour Winchester.

Sept. 22  Winchester to Meonstoke (12 miles; 19 km) Corhampton Lane Farm B & B 

Sept. 23 Meonstoke to Buriton (14 miles) Nursted Farm B & B 

Sept. 24 Buriton to Cocking (11 miles; 17.5 km) Moonlight Cottage  

Sept. 25 Cocking to Amberley (11.5 miles 18.5 km) Cherry Tree Cottage  

Sept. 26 Amberley to Bramber (13 miles; 21 km) Stay with Sam

Sept. 27 Bramber to Kingston-near-Lewes (16.5 miles; 26.5 km) The Dorset

Sept. 28 Kingston-near-Lewes to Alfriston (12 miles; 19 km) YHA Alfriston 
Sept. 29 Alfriston to Eastbourne (11 miles; 17.5 km) Atlanta Hotel

Sept. 30 Sam Milford’s house again in Brighton

October 1 Fly to Porto.  Oporto House

October 2 Explore Porto.  Again at Oporto House.

October 3 Begin Portuguese Camino – Arrive in Santiago October 12 

October 13 Take hour bus to La Coruna and spend the night at Hostal Hotil, 

October 14 Fly from La Coruna to Vienna.  .

October 23 Fly to Washington, DC.

Important Links

1. A timely article on walking by Adam Gopnik in the recent New Yorker, covering what we do -- contemplative walking:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/heavens-gaits

2. First walk in northern England:

http://www.contours.co.uk/walking-holidays/coast-to-coast-walk.php

3. Then southern England:

http://www.contours.co.uk/walking-holidays/south-downs-way.php

4. After South Downs Way, we fly to Porto, Portugal, from Gatwick, and walk ten days on the Portuguese Camino to Santiago, Spain:

http://caminoways.com/ways/portuguese-way-camino-portugues

Getting Ready

Poles, shoes and bags -- sitting on the floor in a room in Washington, DC.  Shelley just repacked, pulling out more, thereby making her pack lighter.  Question is:  Can she survive on a bit more than two complete changes of clothes for 7 weeks and 3 hikes in Europe?  Bet we unpack and repack at least once more before departure on September 2.  I'm looking forward to lightening my load by chucking a tour book at the end of each leg of the journey or perhaps I'll follow Shelley's New
Zealand approach of ripping out pages as we moved along ...and reducing the stack of postcards I'm bringing...and the stack of paper with individual reservations.  I'd be better off to trust things saved electronically.  But yesterday, we started this blog and neglected the Save button before pushing the Publish button.  Live and learn.