Groovin in the Ghost Village. (Cheeky Walks in Brighton & Sussex).
Another walk today from the Cheeky Walks in Brighton and Sussex book- this time across rolling downland around Woodingdean, ‘crossing the abandoned ghost village of Balsdean, evacuated and destroyed...
View ArticleClimb Only Mountain (Cheeky Walks in Brighton & Sussex).
Saturday night was spent searching through The Cheeky Book again, which meant that Sunday morning saw us climbing Sussex’s very own mountain, Mount Caburn- old Iron Age territory – near Lewes in East...
View ArticleIsland Gardens of Garnish, Bantry Bay, Southwest Ireland.
The final, and one of my favourite, stops of our South Western Ireland trip was the beautiful Garnish Island- reached by a short ferry trip from the village of Glengarriff, overlooking the waters of...
View ArticleUs Two.
‘Wherever I am, there’s always Pooh,There’s always Pooh and Me.Whatever I do, he wants to do,“Where are you going today?” says Pooh:“Well, that’s very odd ‘cos I was too.Let’s go together,” says Pooh,...
View ArticleIsle of Wight. Hampshire.
We spent a windy Halloween on the Isle of Wight. We took the ferry from Portsmouth over to Fishbourne £60 return- a 40 minute choppy crossing across the Solent. The Island is dog friendly and we...
View ArticleThe Long Man of Wilmington.
The Long Man of Wilmington The Long Man of Wilmington situated on the South Downs in Sussex. Formerly thought to originate in the Iron Age or even the neolithic period, a 2003 archaeological...
View ArticleThe Secret Garden.
Bateman’s Robin. Burwash East Sussex. ‘The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the...
View ArticleSouthease and Rodmell, East Sussex.
Today we parked up at Southease and walked across the fields and along the River Ouse to Rodmell. Southease is a small village west of the River Ouse. It has a church, a small railway station and a...
View ArticlePicnic View.
View from gardens at Standen House West Sussex Life is a picnic on a precipice – W.H. Auden. Feels like I’m on the edge of the world in my picnic stop in Mid Sussex on the borders of East and West...
View ArticleRing of Kerry. Western Ireland.
A Road trip of Road trips today. The stunning Ring of Kerry. Starting in Kenmare, this is a 110 mile circular route around the Iveragh Peninsular covering stunning views, charming towns, rugged...
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