5.2 Guildford to Cocking

In contrast to night 1, I spend a rather a cold night on Rackham Hill... I didn't get to record any more but check out the Hard Up Hiker channel for what happened next... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoEN9C24Pag Chanctonbury Ring and the artwork attached, and bailing cos of the high winds.

Where we spend a quiet lonely night in Graffham Down (apart from some deer), then create an artwork overlooking a cold and windy Bignor...later do a moonlight Flit from Torygraph Daily Mail posh Sundown Town of Amberley... But where can I sleep?

A stealth camping trip from Cocking to Botolphe via Chanctonbury Ring.. This was the first part via Guildford..or Grotford as my family calls it!

After the cold disaster that was Jaunt 2 in October I have been wary of camping in Autumn and Winter...and also I have never fully wild camped or took part in this poulart stealth camping trend. So on a cold slightly rainy November night I did both... Recorded in a secret location in Surrey.

So I press on to Exmouth despite the lies of the distance markers (4! 3! No 6!) via the official western point the Geoneedle but my own end at Rodney Point (pictured) and get there with knackered feet as it goes dark. I find a pub, get a taxi, have a strange Pink Hooch then get back to the campsite. 2 years of work is over! Now what?

Did two paintings at Ladram Bay then walked to Budleigh Salterton which I liked so much I took the Coastal Path to Exmouth the first chance I got.

Showers, sudden winds, a tent 4am episode and walking from Salcombe Mouth to Otterton.

I got to Branscombe and the Tea Room is magically still open, I get a lift with a wonderfully daffy Staffie named Cassie, and end up at Waitrose at Sidsomething. I walk back and create an ode to the Legendary Sidford Spar, and walk up THAT hill.

Where I say the classic ' I think it' s rather flat' and find out it isn't... In a heatwave.

Lyme didn't stick - issued with the campsite and a feeling that I was just retreading old.ground ans possibly cos of buses being stuck there, I left for Salcombe Regis near Sidmouth.