On the Way to Stornoway

OK, it has been over a year and a half since I finished the big walk. I have been occupied with trying to make the house I bought in Stornoway habitable and a postgraduate course. So my trips between London and Stornoway have reverted to being by plane or ferry bus and train.

The plan, obviously, is to move to Stornoway but work/debt considerations means this has not happened yet. Still I hope to do it within a year.  And it occurs to me that there are some places in the South I have not explored and that chief amongst them is Lyme Regis and the Undercliff.  I have never been to Winchester, where Jane Austin is buried, either and it ocurred to me that I could undertake a short-long walk from here to the Undercliffe, joining up most of the main Jane Austen sites: Chawton, Winchester and Lyme as a minimum, and exploring some new country. This would have the benefit of extending the line I have walked every step of the way of from the South Coast of England to Stornoway.

I have been  humming and haa-ing about this for a bit.  Nearly set off in Autumn but I still had an essay to write for my course and then Christmas came. But I have finally decided to set off again.

I have until the Autumn at least to do this walk.  Financially, because of the house I am on a tighter budget than last time but then it is a much shorter walk.  And I should be able to do the greater part in day trips from London, I think, so there should be less need for expensive accomodation.

So here we go, a short walk through Jane Austen country to the southern wilderness of The Undercliff.

http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/81/