I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 704. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about pints and peers and Iron Age

forts and cliffs and authors and the world's longest pub crawl

as we hike the South Downs Way in southern England.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

the South Downs Way. I'd like to welcome the show Aaron Miller from the armchair explorer

podcast at armchair dash explorer.com who's come to talk to us about hiking the

south downs way in England.

Aaron, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Chris.

Pleasure to be here.

Well, and Aaron, why are we talking about the South Downs Way?

And can you put it on a map for us first?

First of all I come from this area so I'm passionate about it.

The South Downs Way is I think one of the most beautiful but lesser known hikes in

England. It's in the south of England. It's a 100 mile foot path that stretches from

eastbourne, which is south of London, right on the coast, and it goes 100 miles west to Winchester and it's a beautiful route because it

follows the spine of the South Downs the entire way.

And the South Downs being a series of hills and mountains, well, hills, we're talking about.

The South Downs is beautiful, gentle rolling hills that stretch all this way and it's quintessential English landscape.

When you picture that quintessential Englishness, that gentle rolling hills in arable farmland

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