A rebel without a clue.

Tough walk down off the Downs into Clanfield. I was stood at the wrong bus stop for a while so had to walk to Drift Road to connect with the First Bus number 8. As I was by a parade of shops I went into Chandler's , but I just had the worst/most lackluster of all the breakfasts eaten since Thursday morning. It was £10 and small, undercooked and uninspired, but then again the proprietor said Crossant not croissant... ... Funny old day. We did a lot of tourist stuff. Portchester, which was excellent for coffee, church, view and a walk along to the bus stop via Stargate prototypes. But I was always exhausted from the running of a warm tap in the room up on top of the Sustainability Centre. But I am still going just before nine. We're staying at the Nag's Head where I end today with a fantastic pint of Harvey's Best Bitter. Tomorrow we head east to the Cuckmere Haven... Michael and I went back into the happy groove so that the walk from awful Portchester train station to Ro...

Please don't ask me to do this again! 35 kilometres up and over, down then return, to find accommodation which is £48 for one person in a hostel. There is a flaw in England and it's the cost of traveling on a shoestring. True I could have carried a tent, but I would've been at least 25% overburdened, not just fifteen percent. And how was I to know the weather would be dry as a bone in May? From tomorrow I am heading to Chichester to meet up with Michael and the garrote he is carrying. Tomorrow I will need to find a route myself, unless I stick to the Monarch's Way until it hits a station heading to Chichester. The weather will change shortly. It'll be wet a while(Wednesday is forecast rainy), but perhaps not the entire summer? It doesn't matter to me as I will be firmly stuck in Leeds, Wetherby, etc, until September as that's when dog sitting begins in earnest: 26th June on and off until 3rd September when I will sod off again. This accommodation is in a dec...