The Beach vs The Downs

[Mendoza]

With Summer ALMOST here, Which do you prefer on a sunny day??

Downs - country pub beer garden for lunch and drinks, country air, stroll along the hills, the wildlife and the little villages

Beach - beachfront bar for fish and chips, drinks and ice cream, live music, sea air, bikinis, stroll along the promenade, dip in the sea

 

[Ninja Elephant]

100%, Devils Dyke. Breeze up there on the 77 and roam away!

 

[Napper]

More birds to see on the beach

 

[Gwylan]

Downs all the way. Once I gets a bit warmer, on to the cycle, trip through the countryside, pint of Harveys en route - is there anything better?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

100%, Devils Dyke. Breeze up there on the 77 and roam away!

although not as much as when the old 1960's open top used to literally crawl up Snakey Hill!!

 

[Marshy]

Pub, beer garden and a stroll....perfection

 

[itszamora]

Downs, there are far nicer beaches than Brighton's.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Downs, there are far nicer beaches than Brighton's.

Where??

 

[Skint Gull]

Where??

Pretty much any other European country for a start

 

[British Bulldog]

I prefer the beach to the downs but having said that I really do miss being able to get up the downs with my dog, we used to walk for miles and allways rested at the same place where I could sit on a bench and look out across the sea.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Pretty much any other European country for a start

Bye then!!

 

[The Spanish]

although not as much as when the old 1960's open top used to literally crawl up Snakey Hill!!

get the open top from the white horse in rottingdean and have a beach/downs combo.


the beach, btw, all day long for me. Have a bit of a skate and a mull and lots of young ladies knocking about.

The downs is full of backwards people and horsey types.

 

[Mendoza]

The atmosphere on the beach is brilliant in some of the bars with live accoustic music, jug o pimms and the sun shining, but then getting out on the bike up on the downs is brilliant too, especially with a country beer garden stop off.

I think the beach just edges it for me though, the long summer nights on the beach, a few cans and a BBQ. WICKERD

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Less pricks on the Downs and more good pubs. Winner.

 

[The Oldman]

Combine the two options?

 

[Billy the Fish]

I love walking along the beach in the summer. Hove lawns to palace pier, loads to do and plenty of nice bars, job done

 

[strings]

Love the beach.

I really miss it, living in the West Midlands.

 

[seagully]

I absolutely love the Downs. Spent many a happy day there in my youth. Villages like Jevingon and their connection with smuggling always used to fascinate me, and still do I suppose! Cuckmere Haven was always a favourite, as well as Birling Gap, even if it was just to see whether any more of it had fallen into the sea.

 

[The Large One]

Combine the two options?

Exactly what I did yesterday - went for a walk along Seaford Head. Marvellous.

 

[Mendoza]

Exactly what I did yesterday - went for a walk along Seaford Head. Marvellous.

Whats the beach like there? was thinking of doing just that in a couple of weeks