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Stage 2: Wayward Return - Exton to Queen Elizabeth Country Park

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 And we're back! The Waywards Return After multiple aborted attempts we finally made our return to Exton to continue our walk last Sunday, the 25th April; nearly five months after the first leg. (The less said about our last minute realisation at the beginning of April - that even though we could walk together under the two households rule, we couldn't actually travel in a car together - the better. Who needs to know that we were unceremoniously dumped at the side of the road a mile from home?)   Pounding the chalk paths once more   This time it was all smiles. There was the Shoe Inn, and the stream and all the lovely cottages of Exton that we remembered, and now bathed in warm spring sunshine. It was all worth the wait: we had picked the perfect day to carry on pounding the chalk paths of the South Downs Way. Who cares that we weren't entirely sure which way out of Exton we should head?  View of Old Winchester Hill And this walk really was spectacular. I had no idea, for e