Today is two short "guide book days" turned into one so around twenty miles via the very pretty village of Charing and includes a number of turns up and down the ridge.
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Another view from the ridge and another warning
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I come across a carving of a pilgrim who may have passed this way 800 years ago. It was the death of Thomas a Beckett in 1170 that started the pilgrimage to Canterbury and though the old Pilgrims Way has been chopped in places by the motorways and bypassed in favour of the path along the ridge the route is still very much in evidence.
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A pilgrim
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Resting
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A shiny, freshly painted letter box tells up this is a rural landscape and even in an age of email and motorised transport the local dispersed community need ready access to a posting box.
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92 miles walked
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As today is twenty miles I stop in Charing for lunch. This picturesque Kentish village has a church built out of the flint it has stood on as far back as the 13th century.
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| St Peter and St Paul's church |
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Another day, another vineyard
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We don't see much reference to the European trails in Britain but again on this walk I spy a marker for the E2 and rare signage for the Grand Randonnee.
As I approach Wye I get to walk through one of the Kent apple orchards and the harvest is underway.
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| Apples ready for harvest |
The end point today is charming village of Wye. I wonder at how some churches get named after multiple saints.
