Guildford to Godalming

This was probably just one of those things, but trying to book for the programmed walk from Guildford to Godalming was off the scale. I don’t know the area and felt like I was  some kind of mental deadlock. The walk was a doddle in comparison to planning it! A breeze in fact, less than it’s printed 6.5 mile description.

 Last weekend in between planning for a job interview I decided I was going to do this walk, & buy the ticket in advance as you do.

It had been a hard week, I needed a walk, & some fresh air, no question about that. I checked in the South Bank newsletter for details of a walk on Saturday and found the Guildform to Godalming walk to be a short enough and near enough walk to manage. 

Sometimes it just gets confusing

The newsletter & online South Bank Website said to buy a return to Godalming and get the 9.30 am getting off at Guildford meeting at 10.15 am on the 21st of January.  I typed in London Waterloo to Godalming at 9.30 am. I’m looking, but there isn’t a 9.30 train! to Godalming. I called one of the leaders. Yes, she tells me, the train is at 9.30 am, she is looking at the website, and she can see it, she sends me the link.

I tell her I’m looking at it too and there is no 9.30am train from Waterloo to Godalming. Something vital is missing in this conversation, but neither of us have a clue what.!

God damn it where the hell is Godamling anyway? It must be on the GUILDFORD LINE. Well, it is, but the 9.30 am train from Waterloo isn’t going there, BUT  a train at 9 am is going to Godalming, another at 10 am and so on every hour. I can’t buy a return from Waterloo at 9.30 am to Godalming that stops at Guildford.  Fact.

I have to buy a return ticket to Guildford and a single ticket from Godalming to  Guildford. For those of you still reading (tell me about it!) 

How to pronounce Godalming! 

Elocution lesson  of the day folks.https://youtu.be/yiIpKs22EFA

It was a short but sweet walk.

We watched a swan take off in full flight along this river, a magnificent sight. I thought about taking a snapshot shot but it happened so unexpectedly, I let it go.

It was over far too quickly, and I left the group at Farncombe, Surrey. A bunch of the group wanted to have lunch at midday. The rest sat by the river to eat a packed lunch. I decided to split & I carried on to Godalming alone.

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