Day #22 Colchester, Essex to Brantham, Suffolk.

Roman wall remains

  Pic shows a section of the old Roman city wall in Colchester. Sections dot the centre town landscape.    

A civilized ‘late’ 8.30am start to the day today, after a chatty breakfast with David, proprietor of the Pescara Guest House in Colchester. Declared redundant at age 55, David has built a really beautiful guest home full of antiques none of which for has paid more than 10 pounds. David is a hard-core auction fiend and treats the whole process as undisguised warfare.

        Weather cold and grey, but light rain held off until I reached my destination for the night. Generally maintained my route through quiet country roads and in fact, had a couple of half hour intervals when only a solitary farm-tractor trundled past me.

       As is the nature of the solitary walker there is plenty of time to day-dream & to ponder the big issues. As I watch the con-trails of the big jets overhead and think of all the passengers enjoying their plastic scampi and consider that in the duration of their meal—one hour, they will have travelled 500 miles. It will take the urban car driver moving at 40 mph, 12½ hours non-stop to cover the same distance. Yours sincerely, the coastal walker pushing his jogger, takes, at 2½ mph, 200 hours, at 6 hours walking per day, 33 days to cover the same distance. Point to muse on anyway!

       Today’s walk skirted the Stour River estuary, mostly consisting of muddy river- banks, lined with hundred of characters wielding rods. Question: Do these numbers of fish persons reflect the depth of the recession?

                                     

22.6 Kms. walked today per pedometer. Cumulative Kms. covered: 543.8
Hours of walking today including rest stops: 6 1/4.
Type of accommodation: Youth Hostel
Cost of bed & breakfast: pounds. 11.50

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