Bunking West
WOKING TO PUTTENHAM VIA THE WEY, WORPLESDON, BROAD STREET COMMON, FLEXFORD AND WANBOROUGH This is the first of three walks linked on a whim and involving some spontaneous bunking and camping. What had begun as a reasonable excuse for a night away, sharing a tent, turned into a weekend adventure and a whole couple of days of teenage children stepping up to look after themselves. Remarkably, no-one was harmed in the making of this Surrey and Hampshire epic but my planned route was subject to alteration and minor delay. Doing a multiple-dayer is a great way to stretch out time because events early on feel like so long ago already. Sadly, however, I cannot do this every week, even though the children pulled through very well, did not murder each other or burn the house down. Typically, my leisure calendar has simply clumped a few outings together and I fear, the rest of the year will seem a little sparse. I will therefore, try and recall now some of the joys, the memory of which are b...
