Wind, Rain, and Hills, Oh my! (4/19/24)

We left The Dorset Inn in Lewes this morning a little less pleased with it than initially after the coffee machine in the room didn’t work and they offered only a continental breakfast of store-bought rolls, some fruit, cereal, and yogurt, and bread for make-your-own toast. That isn’t horrible, but there were no plates (but a few bowls), and when the other guest eating at the same time as us asked for butter for the toast, the staff member brought him 2 pats of butter. We would have had to ask for our own. Quite a unique experience and good for a story.

On the way back out of Lewes to return to the trail, Bob found us a route that took us by the home of Anne of Cleves, so we could at least get a photo. Anne was the 4th wife of Henry VIII, so was Queen for about 7 months in 1540. She was lucky enough to get out of the marriage with just an annulment instead of a beheading.

Anne of Cleves home sort of.
It was gifted to Anne at the end of her marriage to Henry,
but she never lived there.

Bob tells me that today’s walk was the same length as yesterday’s, but it felt much different. We had an hour and 20 minute walk back to the trail, much of it steeply uphill, and that was only one of quite a few hill climbs today. We also had quite the downpour for about 30 or 40 minutes atop a couple of the hills later in the walk, that we luckily had dressed for before it started. However, after the burst, we were treated to sun that helped dry us out.