Rye
Rye
Sunday 13th April 2008
A daytrip to visit the charming seaside (ish) town of Rye.
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| 11:12:32 Here's me and Chie on the train, with Chie oddly taking a picture of my camera as it was taking a picture of us. | 11:13:36 ...same again without the phone in the way. | 11:47:18 There's Rye station. |
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| 11:51:13 ...and here we are in the charming streets of Rye proper. | 11:52:42 ...there follows lots of pictures of these lovely little streets... | 11:53:55 Simon the Pieman, apparently. |
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| 11:55:31 The church. | 11:56:10 It's hard to walk past a half timbered house like this and not take a picture. | 12:00:35 This, I believe, is Mermaid Street. |
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| 12:00:49 Cobbles and everything - what more could you want? | 12:01:04 Just in case there was any uncertainty about the presence of cobbles. | 12:01:51 ...and here is the Mermaid Inn - in its current incarnation it is almost 600 years old. |
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| 12:03:13 | 12:10:19 Inside the Mermaid Inn. | 12:10:32 ...and again. |
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| 12:13:50 We decided we should stop here and have lunch. Here we are in the back bar, Chie enjoying the grand fire place. | 12:17:09 Our lunches - roast beef for Chie, a spinach and goats cheese omelette for me. | 12:27:15 Me with the bar (note the hanging hops) behind me. |
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| 12:44:27 | 12:45:33 | 12:49:41 The little courtyard in the middle of the Mermaid Inn. |
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| 12:50:55 Back out the front again. | 12:51:06 Close-up on some of the creepers growing up the wall... | 12:52:39 |
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| 13:27:36 Some blossom | 13:32:12 A loch. | 13:36:02 Headed out of Rye, and over the fields toward the sea. |
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| 13:36:07 Chie in a field. | 13:36:20 Looking back to Rye. | 13:38:50 A couple of swans... |
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| 13:39:26 ...Chie was rather delighted to find the fields were full of lambs. | 13:39:41 ...some of which were very inquisitive and came very close to the footpath! | 13:39:54 |
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| 13:40:04 | 13:40:11 Ahhhhhh! Wickle baby baa lambs. | 13:42:27 Lambs with their mother. |
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| 13:43:24 | 13:50:25 It was a bit windy. | 13:50:33 There's Camber Castle over there. |
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| 13:50:36 | 13:50:38 | 13:55:27 |
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| 13:56:31 Camber Castle a bit closer up. | 13:57:18 | 14:00:05 |
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| 14:22:10 | 14:28:19 A digger which seems to have been abandoned in a field. | 14:37:23 Finally we made it to the coast, and here's a cabbage-like plant - I believe I saw Ray Mears eating one of these (or some part of it, or maybe he was saying it was deadly poisonous... errr...). |
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| 14:37:34 Chie on the beach. | 14:38:27 | 14:38:56 |
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| 14:39:20 | 14:39:42 | 14:40:44 Self timer portrait. |
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| 14:41:12 | 14:44:34 Arty portrait of Chie. A bit like the 007 title sequence I suppose. | 14:50:55 Some sort of dead fish had washed up. |
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| 14:51:28 | 15:04:24 | 15:04:39 Quite nice clouds here. |
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| 16:30:04 Back in Rye now | 16:31:43 More charming buildings. | 16:32:49 Ye Old Bell - nice roof there. |
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| 16:42:24 A gatehouse. | 16:43:08 | 17:06:34 A spot of late afternoon tea. |
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| 17:06:37 | 17:06:45 Very nice! |
