Friday 7 August 2015

The rest of the time in the UK

This is in Winchester station. It's a lovely advert for cider.

Lots of railway bridges

The Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth


When we travelled from the airport, we stayed in the nearby town of Saffron Walden. It's a picturesque place which is rather ruined by the traffic. The window is in the parish church. It has a picture which you can hardly see of Margaret of Anjou, who was Henry VI's wife.

The parish church has a very high steeple. This is what Wikipedia says: 
Saffron Walden is home to the largest parish church in Essex. St. Mary the Virgin dates mainly from the end of the 15th century, when the previously existing and smaller church was extensively rebuilt in flint. In 1769 it was damaged by lightning and the repairs, carried out in the 1790s, removed many of the medieval features. The present spire was added in 1832 to replace an older ?lantern? tower. The church is 183 feet (56 m) long and the spire 193 feet (59 m) high, and is the tallest in Essex.

This is a charming modern sculpture near the parish church.





Lewes, Southover Grange, monument to the madrigal 

Southover Grange

Lewes Priory ruins


Proiry gardens


lavender

bumblebee on lavender

hyssop

dill, I think.



oregano




This is a lovely winswept plant on the seafront in Bexhill

Dinosaur egg sculpture
More sculptures in Bexhill

In Bexhill it was dull, but in Brighton, the weather was so good there were even people in the sea!



Our last day, we went for a lovely walk near Ringmer.






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