Slept well in our lovely house, where we had the top floor of 5! All walk up. It's a vy relaxed B&B with Sally our charming hostess. There are lots of family photos around and you actually feel like you are staying in a house with a friend. Sally is very charming and helpful -allowing us to do a load of washing and hang it in her basement.
We had breakfast in her conservatory looking onto the garden, meeting the other family staying. They had travelled all the way from Canterbury !
Pip and I set off after breakfast for a little look at the shops and Steve stayed to catch up on emails. The shops are rather good though not too many of them. I bought a new umbrella as mine was falling apart. Mind you it was from the time we were in Beijing for the Olympics.
We collected Steve and drove off to Eartham - a very small village Steve remembers visiting when he was a child living in London. He said he stayed in a large manor house near the church. We found the village and it seems the house is now a private school catering for day and boarding child's from 2-13 . I certainly hope they don't take the 2's for boarding! We looked in the little village church and then had a drink at the pub the George. It's a great little local and I can see why people love to go to the pub here in England. Especially when the weather is not so good.
Headed along the country style lanes to Climping a beach Steve also remembers visiting as a child. It was windy and quite un attractive and he must have had plastic saddles to reach the water.
We returned to Arundel to visit the castle rooms and spent a good 2 hours touring and getting to know the Howard family castle. It was rebuilt a hundred years ago and refurbished in mo recent years. It's great. Is banquet room is amazing and the Duke hosted his cousins wedding to an Italian prince there last year. The dining room is lovely and the Library was my favourite. All red and dark timbers and comfy chairs. I could really spend some time there. The upstairs bedrooms are still used for the Dukes overflow of guests and reminded me of the room we stayed in at Carton House Ireland.
W walked to the large town Cathedral where we spent about 10 mins. I took 2 photos and sat for a few minutes. W walked across the road to the local pub for a drink and I realised I had lost my camera . I ran back to the church........and it was gone! There wee only about 2 people and us and then by the time we left no one. So in ten minutes someone arrived and found my camera and took it!
So readers no photos for a while. We have Pips - but v few of us. So tomorrow in Brighton I might be buying another camera.
We had breakfast in her conservatory looking onto the garden, meeting the other family staying. They had travelled all the way from Canterbury !
Pip and I set off after breakfast for a little look at the shops and Steve stayed to catch up on emails. The shops are rather good though not too many of them. I bought a new umbrella as mine was falling apart. Mind you it was from the time we were in Beijing for the Olympics.
We collected Steve and drove off to Eartham - a very small village Steve remembers visiting when he was a child living in London. He said he stayed in a large manor house near the church. We found the village and it seems the house is now a private school catering for day and boarding child's from 2-13 . I certainly hope they don't take the 2's for boarding! We looked in the little village church and then had a drink at the pub the George. It's a great little local and I can see why people love to go to the pub here in England. Especially when the weather is not so good.
Headed along the country style lanes to Climping a beach Steve also remembers visiting as a child. It was windy and quite un attractive and he must have had plastic saddles to reach the water.
We returned to Arundel to visit the castle rooms and spent a good 2 hours touring and getting to know the Howard family castle. It was rebuilt a hundred years ago and refurbished in mo recent years. It's great. Is banquet room is amazing and the Duke hosted his cousins wedding to an Italian prince there last year. The dining room is lovely and the Library was my favourite. All red and dark timbers and comfy chairs. I could really spend some time there. The upstairs bedrooms are still used for the Dukes overflow of guests and reminded me of the room we stayed in at Carton House Ireland.
W walked to the large town Cathedral where we spent about 10 mins. I took 2 photos and sat for a few minutes. W walked across the road to the local pub for a drink and I realised I had lost my camera . I ran back to the church........and it was gone! There wee only about 2 people and us and then by the time we left no one. So in ten minutes someone arrived and found my camera and took it!
So readers no photos for a while. We have Pips - but v few of us. So tomorrow in Brighton I might be buying another camera.
Oh bummer Fran about the camera! I distinctly remember another Maitland female losing her camera on an overseas trip in 2008 so I guess you're not the only one! But pretty poor form stealing it in a church!!!! Have a ploughmans for me!
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