There's a good little café at Swanley station that seems to be open all day. I had a flask of coffee with me and a roll for lunch, but I was drawn to the Halloween iced doughnuts so I bought one and ate it when I stopped for coffee at the same church in Horton Kirby where I stopped for lunch last time. It was still closed, as was every other church I tried today.
The sun came out while I was drinking my coffee, just like last time, then I headed off into the hills via a very nice valley road called Maplescombe. It rose gently towards the woods at the head of the valley with harvested fields on either side. There was very little traffic. Past Knatts Valley the woods began and the road climbed more steeply, topping out at about 200m before dropping steeply down towards Otford.
I crossed the Darenth yet again, and went as far as the M25 before turning north towards Shoreham which was a well kept country village with quite a few shops and pubs. Then I went steeply downhill to Lullingstone country park where there's a cafe and shop and I ate my lunch. From there it was a VERY steep climb back out of the valley, over the M25 and then up and down at first before a long and smooth descent back to Swanley.
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