At the end of the schools half term we went to Littlehampton Caravan Club site about 70 miles from Ringwood. We’ve been before and we knew that part of it flooded so not much has changed in 5 years.
Setting up Evening walk on the prom
A trip out to Worthing on the 700 bus
Worthing beach Littlehampton prom
The longest bench in Britain seats over 300 people on Littlehampton’s promenade. There are some flat bits that you can sit on.
East Beach Café – the original inspiration for the design was a piece of driftwood
Another trip on the 700 bus, this time, to Arundel. Some of the house detail.
Arundel Cathedral
The cathedral's location, construction, design, and dedication owe much to the Howard family, who, as Dukes of Norfolk and Earls of Arundel are the most prominent English Catholic family, and rank first (below the royal family) in the Peerage of England. Since 1102 the seat of the Howards' ancestors has been Arundel Castle.
Cathedral nave Covered shopping area nearby
Arundel High Street
There are traces of early Roman development in Arundel; however it mainly developed as a Saxon town referred to in the Domesday Book in 1086, by which time Arundel had become a flourishing market town and port, with a population of a few hundred.
Worthing again – doing a few geocaches on a very windy day.
| Sue with a mega, half pint, hot chocolate | Bric-a-brac in the café |
| I couldn’t resist getting the shorts out | A sunny Sunday afternoon on the prom. |
A couple of chaps were were flying their drones on the prom. There are regulations about flying them close to people, but I don’t think they cared. They were very manoeuvrable. Notice the camera underneath.
Littlehampton Harbour We were walking behind some people who's dog, a schnauzer, was following. On passing the fish and chip shop the dog went in unbeknown to the owners. When I told them where their dog was they shot off to get it.
Littlehampton Harbour in the other direction.
We went to Shoreham to do some geocaches along the beach. We started at the old fort. This is a view inland.
Shoreham beach huts.
Our friends Sally and Pat have just moved to Rustington about 5 minutes away from the caravan site. They came to us for a meal and we were kindly invited back to their new home. It is still a work in progress, but an enormous amount of work has been done to transform the house to what it is now. It should be finished in about 6 months.
Another sunny day so we went to do a loop of geocaches in some nearby countryside. Halfway around we stopped for a little light refreshment at the World’s End pub. While I went to get the nearby geocache a chap stopped and chatted to Sue and told her that he was born in the pub.
View of Littlehampton Harbour from the top of the Look and Sea Visitor Centre.
Oldie photo – Stuart in the open air swimming pool in Hemel Hempstead doing his canoe training
