3 men on a walk 2015: A short stretch before Christmas

Around Sevenoaks Weald

The weather forecast was for a wet and windy day but studying the detail it appeared that there was a small 2.5 hour break between the two wet fronts from 10-00am and so we decided to chance it and get a short 7 mile walk in ahead of our Christmas eating. And the gamble paid off as the sun came out at 10-00am and the rain came back at 12-30 - but we were in the pub by then!

We have done most of this walk before; parking up at Sevenoaks Weald and heading off towards Bough Beech Reservoir. Too much "nattering" on route and not enough map reading meant that the second half of the walk was new! But it still fitted the bill and turned in a 7 mile trek over what was incredibly wet and muddy terrain so it felt more like 10 miles than 7.

The "Windmill" pub in the village doesn't serve food on a Monday so we nipped back down the road a few miles in the car to "The Cock Horse" at Hildenborough, which we have frequented a few times over the past year or so and its a known quantity for us.