Being by the sea

Sand Castles and Cherrys

Unexpected lovely weekend, day trip to France thru the tunnel, although delays – not too bad – then croissants, visit to very small chocolate factory, crepes, beautiful french countryside and medieval towns on hill tops and always somehow find our way back to the sandy beach at Wissant where there always seems to be low […]

Pevensey Bay

On our way home, we were looking for the road that runs past Pevensey Castle and took a wrong turning and found our way down to the beach at Couden, very old fashioned seaside beach. We drove along very small single track road between the sea and Pevensey Levels on our way, many sheep […]

Surf Breakers – Selsey

near the Lifeboat on the shingle beach in Selsey, sea little rough yesterday and fishing boats bobbing up and down close to the beach

Besides the Sea

Beyond the wall, is shingle, the English Channel and France

Selsey Lifeboat

Yesterday was my dad’s birthday and we went with them back to his old stamping grounds – sun shining and the sea was fairly calm. This lifeboat station is being decommissioned and being replaced with one launching from the beach. Feel sort of sad about this We found the place, his grandfather was born too, […]

Étretat

Last weekend we made a long drive to Étretat along small roads of Picardy and Normandy following the coastline past Wissant, Dieppe and small port of Fécamp. From the tunnel we drove along some of the toll roads across large viaducts but enjoyed best driving along the smaller roads, watching tractors busy in the fields with the sea in the […]

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