English Ambiguous Walking, Sussex

Back in NZ, Paul and I would often end up in the Waitakeres or generally walking in hills or along the beach. We’d decided a while back that we should have a walking weekend and I had the job of finding a place to stay. As it turned out my choice, the village of Alfriston, was the same place where we ended up for his work party, but in a way it was good to have done the initial reconnaissance of the area by car a few weeks ago.


  Country Fields

Alfriston is a very cutesy English village, lanes, footpaths, more horses on the road than cars and is only a couple of miles over rolling seas to the very impressive Seven Sisters



  Bramble Berries


  Wind-Swept Amy and Paul



We were joined by friends Theresa, Emma and Brian and spent most of Saturday and Sunday walking through farms and along cliffs. Map reading by consensus was good fun and didn’t get us lost per se as we did know which part of the map we were waking in circles over.

After a hard day on Saturday, we passed a pub on the way to the hostel and didn’t leave there until dinner, some local ales, a trivial pursuit quiz and a couple of games of scrabble later. Rambling back in the dark without torches was fun.


  The Seven Sisters 

Girls' Night

 


Amber, Amy, Jess, Leona, Fran










Continuing the long tradition of Girls’ Night a few of us headed out of Friday having been all glammed up at the house before hand.

A fine meal was had a local favourite Le Mercury followed by, errrr, a lot of talking…. 

Picnic in Highbury Park

An afternoon baking was followed by a picnic in the local park with some of the usual suspects...











L-R Emma, Fran, Graham, Jess, Paul & Leona 

A weekend out of London (Sussex & Kent)

Paul and his new very waterproof tent









One of the Seven Sisters (each sister is a peak in the cliffs)










A pebble beach and the Seven Sisters (well, one of them) - Seaford











Hever Castle (where the Bolyen girls grew up)