Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

Said goodbye to David & Peter today at the Old School B & B around 8.30am. David has told us to go and visit the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, so we stopped off on our way.  

This morning we woke to a sensational day, blue skies were visible through the clouds and the forecast was no rain. A perfect day for a stroll in the woods.

After breakfast we headed out to Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve,  we came to the carpark, left our coats and jumpers in the car and took off on the ¾ mile walk to the start of the walk!?

We woke this morning to a beautiful day of English liquid sunshine. And that more or less decided our activities for the day (no long outdoor walks today!).

We took our time getting started, nothing touristy here opens much before 10 or 11am. We left our BnB, ”The Old School House”, and headed to Petworth, about a 30min drive away through the country side.

Woke to a beautiful, crisp morning, the view from our window was stunning.   

After a final breakfast, we said goodbye to Eastbourne and around 9am headed to Sissinghurst Castle Garden 32 miles away.  It isn’t on the way to our next stop in Chichester, so we had decided not to go. But after chatting to Lyn this morning changed our mind.  So pleased we did.

We headed a few km away to Beachy Head early this morning for a 10km round walk to see the White Cliffs and The Seven Sisters.   

We decided to have a quiet day today and to just explore a little of Eastbourne on foot. We waited a little after breakfast for the morning showers to ease before we walked along the foreshore to the pier.

We started the day at around 8:40am for the drive over to Deal. Sandwich was about halfway to Deal, it was early and there didn’t appear to be a lot to see so we cut Sandwich out. ?

Somehow, today turned into a monster, it wasn’t meant to be so!
We started our day with breakfast at 8am and were out the door exploring Canterbury at 8:30.
Our plan was to start at the Westgate Gardens, but somehow we, started by having a look at the Marlowe Theatre. It is a 1200 seat theatre, said to be one of the best regional theatres in the UK. From what we could see of its program, it has a show on at least every other night. And a vast array of very different shows at that. Everything from comedy, to musicals, to orchestra backed artists. Definitely something for everyone.

Today we picked up our hire car to begin our road trip of England. We decided it was easiest to get a cab to the car rental yard rather than pick the car up and load up at the flat, parking is a huge issue here and all over London.
Unlike Chaucer’s version, our travels to Canterbury will not include fidelity, courtship or death! However, I am sure there will be a bit of intrigue and a lot of love, and many colourful tales.
And so, it begins.

Simple plans for the day, have a look around Knightsbridge/Belgravia, French Open Men’s Final and get ready for tomorrow, the start of our road trip of Britain.
Lucky for us, I decided we needed an early start, so I got up at 4:00am. I discovered it’s light here at that time. I don’t know what time sunrise starts here (and I don’t want to experience it), but it was well underway. Somehow I managed to wake Deb, ? , so we both got an early start.