BOC Walk, Runnymede & Windsor Great Park

This walk was arranged to go through the Runneymede park, see one of the magna carta memorials, then move into Windsor Great Park for a loop before returning back along the Thames Path.

BOC Walk - Prewalk, Runnymede

I had signed up for a BOC retirees walk whilst down in the South East. I was in the Chertsey C&C site overnight in the van, but was not sure of a parking site close to Runnymede that would take it, so I planned to walk up the Thames path from Chertsey bridge to Runnymede.
I was up early due to the time change from BST to GMT and caught the sun rise.

Chertsey Stroll

Sunday morning, I left Canterbury early and headed across to Copthorne for band practice.
After I managed to not embarrass myself too much on the pipes, and the usual social afterwards I headed up towards London, and the C&C campsite in Chertsey.
They allocated me a pitch next to the river Thames, quite pleasant with only a few planes overhead.

AAC non Walk, North Downs Way, Wye Downs

The wind had died down overnight and the skies cleared. All the alternative walks I had thought about vanished as the forecast showed the rain would hold off until the afternoon. There was also a pamphlet in the site information room showing a shorter version which I could incorporate as required.
That being so I thought I could make use of the original plan watching the skies and the clock, before deciding when to turn back. I also chose to leave as early as I could once I was sorted and the trains complied, so I was off just after 8am.
It was cold this morning as I walked back down to Canterbury, and through the centre, out the west gate and across to the "west" train station. Essentially the same route as last night with a bit on the end.

Dinner Hunt, Canterbury

The journey down was un eventful if you discounted the queues that chewed up the M3 then M25, and finally the M20, adding around an hour to the journey, so I arrived in Canterbury just in time for the end of school day, so the roads were all clogged up.

The day had started off sunny in Herefordshire, and I flirted with the rain all the way down, however once at the campsite it was more blustery than wet. After setting up the van I headed back down into Canterbury for some supplies for the next few days, and also to truffle out some dinner.