Day4 Kemsing -Aylesford & TT#2

Another long walk!
Kemsing village and it’s ancient church door dented by pilgrim’s staves and a holy well ! Onto 10thC Wrotham church with strange passage under the tower to enable processions round church.

The pilgrim track is now being more clearly marked and it’s kissing gate after kissing gate , but thankfully in this heat it’s through arched woodland paths past Trottiscliffe , Vigo Village and onto Whitehorse wood . I met some sheep having an argument - one field to another! See Facebook video !
At Halling the old Pilgrim’s way crossed the river Medway by ferry here - which closed only in 1963 . The palace next to the Halling church is yards from the river - and the other side is not that far away !
The crossing these days is by a very new bridge to connect to a nearly finished modern garden village - Peters village . Burnham village has a 12thC church with two Norman fonts is isolated near the river -another crossing point. It’s uphill then to home for tonight ! A pub ! ( on the slip road it’s like a European lorry park ).
Today it’s been hot and I am over half way after a big 18 miles ! Feet are okay today !

Traveller tales #2
Rob was a Leeds lad -at least he said he supported the might whites - and he was the travel guide supreme on the Silk Road ! He had led travellers in Asia , Americas and Africa and was the most craziest fun person you could imagine ! He was the wild child , Mowgli, travelling in bare feet And mixed the best vodka cocktails - Snickers with vodka the winner! He was always one for a joke ..... getting to know his friends and drinking heavily ! He and and his friends had known each other for years so much so that when they got together the weirdest thing happened . One friend said “42” and everyone laughed , another said “29” and everyone laughed and it went on ... I had to ask what was going on ! He said that his friends knew each other so well they had code numbers for jokes and stories ! Primrose said “here’s a pun ,22” and everyone laughed ! The next night I thought I’d join in and said “42” and there was silence ....what had I done wrong ? !! Rob said “ You told it the wrong way! ”.
He was a great traveller and a very funny guy but it seemed behind the painted smile was sadness! RIP RobRead more