That's my kind of day.

A sort of equivalent down here in Sussex would be to start at the top of the South Downs - somewhere like Devil's Dyke or Chanctonbury Ring and walk east or west as the fancy takes you. Fantastic views all round, always with the possibility of dropping down to the Weald on one side or to the sea on the other.

The downs are in the South Downs National Park - about which there has been a lovely BBC4 documentary, presented by the Vicar of Firle, Glynde and Beddingham, Peter Owen-Jones.