Chichester - Town

Mostly following the long distance cycle route number 2, which runs along the south coast of England, we reached Chichester within a day.
We stayed for the night on a nearby campsite and went for sightseeing on the following day.
 ... And for shopping as I needed new water tight boots.
I will leave my old ones as rubbish here on the Island :P

Hidey-Hole

After my arrival on The Island I decided that I had enough of cold winds and wet. I took the train from Manningtree to London where I visited a friend for a few days.
Afterwards I spent the rest of April in my hidey-hole in Sussex, waiting for the warmth to arrive, and doing all the things which are far better then blogging: emptying the dog, picking weeds, cooking, wading through sea´s of Bluebells, watching the gulls on the beach, making music with friends, and eating fish and chips - just for the sake of variety. ;)

Emptying The Dog In The Evening

It is early evening, but still enough light for a walk in direction of Highdown Hill.

Harbour Fun

The summer visitors are gone, benches and fences are being painted for the coming season, and the vehicles are wrapped and packed for winter. The Harbour Fun in Littlehampton was empty and silent on this day :)

Littlehampton

Wheel of Life - Sandhenge :)

Emptying the Dog - Low Tide

This post goes out to those who asked for more doggie pics, hi Floker :P

Angmering - The Roman Villa

Since watching Time Team, my eyes are searching the ground when walking over the fields in Sussex. So it didn´t take a long until I found a bit of clay,  a very orange coloured one, with inclusions and patches of different coloured material. I could even see that it had been worked by man and not by machine. Somebody had soften the edge of a corner with a finger or the thumb.

South Downs Way

The 160 Km long South Downs Way National Trail follows the old routes and droveways along the chalk escarpment and ridges of the South Downs. The sea is nearby and can be seen from parts of the trail. Here is a map with the heights of the route.
Unfortunately the weather was cloudy and rainy as I went, but it didn´t stop us breaking up with the dog for a three days walk with two nights of wild camping :)

John (US) - Sussex Drinking Song

Source: http://www.contours.co.uk/walking-holidays/south-downs-way.php

Flowers Of Angmering

In Loving Memory - All´s Well

Since I have had contact with people from these Islands I understood that benches are something very important. Loads of  things in life happens here :)
As young you sit on them with your friends, drinking, listening to music and watching the girls/boys walking by.
As an adult you sit on them to rest whilst you are for a walk with your dog, or you meet up with strangers on a bench by the church :P
And when you are dead the members of your family will attach a badge on your favourite bench.
So my dear friends, grab your handkerchiefs, come with me and commemorate those who already left us.

Emptying The Dog By The Sea

With the bus to Littlehampton and back along the beach.

Early Mornings Long Walk

I wanted to walk early in the morning, and managed to be on my way at 8 am. Through the cold woods up to a hill with view as far as to the sea where I layed down for an hour in the morning sun.
Afterwards down to Patching and it´s church St. John the divine.
Thereafter over the fields, up to Highdown Hill and back to Angmering.
All in all 13 km walk - I felt quite exhausted after that :)

Emptying The Dog In The Woods

What to do on hot sunny days?
Go into the woods and cool down.

Brighton - The Old Pier

Check it out - this webcam of the promenade and the pier does still work :)

Brighton - Graffiti

I forgot to mention - Brighton is a great place to stroll around looking for new styles in graffiti, unfortuntly i have already seen the most of them. But there is somebody new since I´ve been there last ...

Brighton - Shopwindow

Brighton - Town

Brighton - Beach Amusements

Still being astonished about having shops on the beach and a fair on a pier - seems to be typical english for me. But it is colourful, isn´t it?

Brighton - Beach Promenade

Colourful houses in small busy streets, interesting shopwindows and a long beach which offers everything in amusement one can wish - that is Brighton. I like this town on the southcoast of Sussex, so here are several posts and hundreds of pics - additional to all the other posts I already made last year :)
Anyhow, enjoy!