[Travel] Best Day Out in Sussex

[Pevenseagull]

Are you talking about Herbrand Walk?

My understanding is that that's traditionally regarded as further east.
My flora was a snapshot of the botanical diversity of the 'Crumbles'.... before the marina development.
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Cracking moth and butterfly diversity back then as well*
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* didn't get all lepidoptera

 

[AmexRuislip]

So what you're saying is that Tunbridge Wells is our version of the Golan Heights?

Similarly to Sidley and the Gaza Strip

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

So what you're saying is that Tunbridge Wells is our version of the Golan Heights?

I must admit that when I pop back and go for a walk and a drink on The Pantiles, that The Golan Heights do not cross my mind, but yes they are, Tunbridge Wells a de- militarised zone, who would have thought it, the locals will be furious.

 

[Shuggie]

Talk of Batemans seems a good excuse for rolling out Rudyard’s usual contribution to this type of thread ...

GOD gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Belovèd over all;
That, as He watched Creation’s birth,
So we, in godlike mood,
May of our love create our earth
And see that it is good.

So one shall Baltic pines content,
As one some Surrey glade,
Or one the palm-grove’s droned lament
Before Levuka’s Trade.
Each to his choice, and I rejoice
The lot has fallen to me
In a fair ground—in a fair ground—
Yea, Sussex by the sea!

No tender-hearted garden crowns,
No bosomed woods adorn
Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs,
But gnarled and writhen thorn—
Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim,
And, through the gaps revealed,
Belt upon belt, the wooded, dim,
Blue goodness of the Weald.

Clean of officious fence or hedge,
Half-wild and wholly tame,
The wise turf cloaks the white cliff edge
As when the Romans came.
What sign of those that fought and died
At shift of sword and sword?
The barrow and the camp abide,
The sunlight and the sward.

Here leaps ashore the full Sou’west
All heavy-winged with brine,
Here lies above the folded crest
The Channel’s leaden line;
And here the sea-fogs lap and cling,
And here, each warning each,
The sheep-bells and the ship-bells ring
Along the hidden beach.

We have no waters to delight
Our broad and brookless vales—
Only the dewpond on the height
Unfed, that never fails—
Whereby no tattered herbage tells
Which way the season flies—
Only our close-bit thyme that smells
Like dawn in Paradise.

Here through the strong and shadeless days
The tinkling silence thrills;
Or little, lost, Down churches praise
The Lord who made the hills:
But here the Old Gods guard their round,
And, in her secret heart,
The heathen kingdom Wilfrid found
Dreams, as she dwells, apart.

Though all the rest were all my share,
With equal soul I’d see
Her nine-and-thirty sisters fair,
Yet none more fair than she.
Choose ye your need from Thames to Tweed,
And I will choose instead
Such lands as lie ’twixt Rake and Rye,
Black Down and Beachy Head.

I will go out against the sun
Where the rolled scarp retires,
And the Long Man of Wilmington
Looks naked toward the shires;
And east till doubling Rother crawls
To find the fickle tide,
By dry and sea-forgotten walls,
Our ports of stranded pride.

I will go north about the shaws
And the deep ghylls that breed
Huge oaks and old, the which we hold
No more than Sussex weed;
Or south where windy Piddinghoe’s
Begilded dolphin veers
And red beside wide-bankèd Ouse
Lie down our Sussex steers.

So to the land our hearts we give
Till the sure magic strike,
And Memory, Use, and Love make live
Us and our fields alike—
That deeper than our speech and thought,
Beyond our reason’s sway,
Clay of the pit whence we were wrought
Yearns to its fellow-clay.

God gives all men all earth to love,
But since man’s heart is small,
Ordains for each one spot shall prove
Beloved over all.
Each to his choice, and I rejoice
The lot has fallen to me
In a fair ground—in a fair ground—
Yea, Sussex by the sea!

 

[Pevenseagull]

I tell you what is nice....
A couple of miles off shore, in a little boat, with a couple of mates, on a sunny day, with the indecipherable babble of the people on the beach mingling with the occasional 'plop'sound of the gentle swell against the boat.
Someone opens a can of beer or lights a cigarette and you realise that none of you have checked your line .... or even spoken .... for an hour .... and you all smile ... and nobody speaks ... and everyone smiles .. and they open a beer, light a cigarette, check their lines and do it all again ...

 

[AmexRuislip]

I tell you what is nice....
A couple of miles off shore, in a little boat, with a couple of mates, on a sunny day, with the indecipherable babble of the people on the beach mingling with the occasional 'plop'sound of the gentle swell against the boat.
Someone opens a can of beer or lights a cigarette and you realise that none of you have checked your line .... or even spoken .... for an hour .... and you all smile ... and nobody speaks ... and everyone smiles .. and they open a beer, light a cigarette, check their lines and do it all again ...

The Star Inn at Normans Bay is nice on a summers eve.

 

[dazzer6666]

I tell you what is nice....
A couple of miles off shore, in a little boat, with a couple of mates, on a sunny day, with the indecipherable babble of the people on the beach mingling with the occasional 'plop'sound of the gentle swell against the boat.
Someone opens a can of beer or lights a cigarette and you realise that none of you have checked your line .... or even spoken .... for an hour .... and you all smile ... and nobody speaks ... and everyone smiles .. and they open a beer, light a cigarette, check their lines and do it all again ...

That post makes me want to get back to doing a bit of sea fishing......idyllic......

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Never been but Bodiam Castle looks an ok day out

Shoreham airshow

Bodiam Castle can be combined with a trip on the Kent & East Sussex railway, running from Tenterden to Bodism, run by our own [MENTION=2192]KentSeagull[/MENTION].

 

[Official Old Man]

Lewes. Although it is only a few miles away from me I don't go in too much. Three or four full day visits a year keeps it interesting. The thrill of taking someone there, sitting in the John Harvey for lunch as the horse drawn dray turns up never lets me down. South Downs also just for the air and the views.
Best of all though is my back garden looking out over a river to fields and a giant oak tree and no noise at all, cold beer in hand I sit for hours.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

For me:

Lunch in Cin Cin.
Casually make my way to the AMEX to meet my father and brother and [MENTION=12187]Uter[/MENTION]
Post match beer with [MENTION=12187]Uter[/MENTION]
Make my way into Brighton for some craft beers and dinner with other footballing friends.

That’s perfect.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Love Rye, stayed in the mermaid the night before Mrs rotr did her wing walk, going to Camber for a few days around Easter.

 

[jasetheace]

Love Rye, stayed in the mermaid the night before Mrs rotr did her wing walk, going to Camber for a few days around Easter.

Sitting in the Mermaid's snug with the Fire crackling away is one of life's great pleasures....

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Shoreham airshow

Probably not THIS summer though...

 

[Weststander]

Lewes. Although it is only a few miles away from me I don't go in too much. Three or four full day visits a year keeps it interesting. The thrill of taking someone there, sitting in the John Harvey for lunch as the horse drawn dray turns up never lets me down. South Downs also just for the air and the views.
Best of all though is my back garden looking out over a river to fields and a giant oak tree and no noise at all, cold beer in hand I sit for hours.

The town museum at the castle is a great little mine of information on the history of Lewes and its surrounds.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Lewes/ Glynde area is great for walking. Firle too.

 

[SK1NT]

Arundel is my fav place... Summer or Winter i love it.

 

[Surf's Up]

No, in Sussex.

Batemans is lovely.

 

[Lower West Stander]

#7..is it?
That is a helluva hole....

Last one at Seaford Head is nice

Yep. Blind drive onto the fairway which is on the side of what seems like a mountain....

 

[The Clamp]

So many lovely places in Summer. A walk to Amberley with a stop-off at the Sportsman for a steak lunch and watching buzzards hover and hunt small things out over the river plain.
A walk up Mill Hill, along to the crossroads, down to the dingly dell by the bridge for a cool drink of water, stroll along the Adur until you pop out by the Amsterdam for an IPA and a pie.. Magic.
The Fountain Inn at Ashurst after a good walk is a winner. The pub where PMc filmed Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time. Sat outside by the pond on a blazing hot day with a plate of food and an IPA? Come on!
And many, many more.

The Christmas festival in Steyning is hard to beat with the beef and horseradish sandwiches served up in the teashop in the Cobbled market. Man, those sandwiches are absolutely blooming delicious. Washed down with strong pot of tea. It doesn't get better.

 

[Two Professors]

Yep. Blind drive onto the fairway which is on the side of what seems like a mountain....

Does it still run down to the '19th Hole'?