Rotary Club of Senlac

After a strikingly cholesterol breakfast in a Tudor-style low-beamed dining room, walking parties assembled for a selection of walks.

The routes were: Long Walk via Pilgrims Way and Darenth Valley to Lullingstone Castle and Eynsford for a well-earned lunch continuing, refreshed, upwards and downwards to Otford in dry weather until last stretch, finally completing 13 miles.

For the Medium Walk way of direction was via Pilgrims Way to Shoreham where a pleasurable lunch sustained the party for returning to Warren Farm and Mount Farm to tread the path of the North Downs Way. A distance in region of six miles was enjoyed by participants.

Short Walk was via Pilgrims Way to Otford for lunch, view the village attractions and casually return to starting point.

Walking report-back by respective leaders confirmed "no missing persons," "all limbs intact."

A further successful dinner terminated with a table quiz to test whether tiredness had set in or that alertness was able to be maintained.

As was to be expected, the victors were overjoyed although the final scores were not so far apart. With another cholesterol breakfast the fitness gained was likely to diminish - however there was another chance to continue the North Downs experience.

Driving a short distance along the A25 to Oldbury Hill (once found, by some members, with difficulty), the choice was to skirt Oldbury Wood (the perimeter of car park) or walk on a semi-circular route bypassing Igtham Mote to return once again for a necessary and enjoyable lunch before taking to the road for the return journey back to East Sussex.