Day hike escape to Winchester

Bracing winds, black skies and acres of oozing mud is the unappetising picture which springs to mind whenever I think about winter walks in the UK.  Up until this year, I’ve always been a fair-weather hiker but a desperate desire to escape the concrete metropolis combined with a rapidly expanding post-Christmas girth drove me to desperate measures. Layered up to the nines, I braced myself for the icy blasts of rural Hampshire.

St Catherine's Hill

Office Breaks St Catherine’s Hill

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Blow away the corporate cobwebs on a day trip to the South Downs

With the welcome return of warm weather this week, there’s no better antidote for work-related stress than to leave the rat race behind and take in the bracing sea air of the South Downs.  Determined to blow away the corporate cobwebs and release six months of shoulder tension, I join the Trailblazer Meet Up Group for a day’s walk along the Seven Sisters.

Seven Sisters, South Downs, Beachy Head, coastal walks, Belletout lighthouse

Diamond Geezer Seven Sisters

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