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BERWICK STATION TO EASTBOURNE VIA WILMINGTON, JEVINGTON, FRISTON FOREST, EAST DEAN, FALLING SANDS AND HOLYWELL After the searing heat of my European sojourn, a period of blowy wet weather back in the UK and the end of the school holidays, Autumn feels as if it has plummeted upon us with an acorny crunch. This first week back after a hiatus was immaculately timed for a sunshiny day with just a whiff of ripened fruits and bleached grassland. It does feel abundant out there. The haws and sloes are vibrant, seed heads needingly present their silhouettes as you walk east and the ground is strewn with wind-felled tree fruits that crackle underfoot. If the following choice of paths feel a little idiosyncratic (when are they ever not), it is because we're filling in the gaps and spanning the special hills south of Wilmington. These are, of course, the curves of the South Downs National Park and I felt a requirement after some Low Weald tramping. There are oblique views only of the Wi...
