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Put a Fork in it, It’s Done! (4/20/24)

Bob and I completed the South Downs Way (SDW) at about 2:00 pm this afternoon. Today, we are the Big Head photo after almost 130 miles (according to Bob’s fitness tracker) with mileage to and from our accommodations included.

The SDW start (or end) in Eastbourne

Today’s route was just over 13 miles with the most climbs balanced by awesome views, as we went up and over the Seven Sisters, down into Birling Gap, up and over Beachy Head, which seemed never-ending and then steeply down only to be taken backup and over a couple more hills to get into Eastbourne. There will be wine and a proper meal out tonight. Photos below.

Walking the narrow trail along the road back into Alfriston
to get back to the trail start this morning
The market square in Alfriston
A chalk horse on a hill on the slopes of High and Over
(that location sounds made up but that’s what the guidebook says)
Entering the Seven Sisters National Park
The unloading of a tour bus.
Don’t recommend timing your walk to end on a weekend.
Our first look at the cliffs along the English Channel
Our ascent of the initial “sister”
Coming down one and looking ahead to the next “sister”
Looking back — beautiful!
Finding out that we were only at the halfway point of the “sisters”
Looking forward (east) to a lighthouse which is now a B&B
Another view back to the west
An obelisk dedicating this land to the National Trust in memory of two brothers killed in WWI
A closer view of the lighthouse
Another view west
A war memorial along the coast
Steeply down. Surely we’re on level ground from here.
Nope, atop last hill before entering Eastbourne

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