What a fantastic walk up from Hever railway station - rural heaven of wildlife in animal, bird and vegetable forms (plus bats on the way back afterwards). Evening visit. Never quite the same without Elsie serving but was thriving at 2015 hours with locals and later some local walking group members. One of them asked if Elsie might make an appearance which she did for about 10 minutes. I have not been there for 5 or 6 years but she immediately reminded me I did not like getting up in the mornings too early!! Made my day, my week and my June.

One of those unspoilt gem of a pubs. A lovely old pub with three pumps selling Adnams Southwold Bitter. Cheap snacks (50p bag) and pickled eggs. Conversation rules here, with some interesting locals and visitors in attendance on our visit today.Could be done by train/walking and/or bus, but our "chauffeur" brought us here today.Great place.

A place to sit and enjoy chatting to the locals.

Early evening

Final stop on my birthday bus crawl, we quickly outnumbered the locals on this warm day so a few of us spilled out onto the pavement.

We arrived a few minutes after opening time, and the place was soon busy with locals in addition to our double decker bus load of thirsty individuals.