Last weekend we took the train southward to Hurstpierpoint, a quaint village just outside of Brighton. Our friends Sarah and Martin Williams live there with their almost-to and already-in university children, Emma and Joshua, and we enjoyed delicious food and drink with them in several places. Sarah Williams was Sarah Cooper when Chris and I first met her as a fellow student at Middlebury College circa 1984.
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- Church (of England) at the center of Hurstpierpoint
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- so many beers, so little time
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- C is very skeptical of Granola Ale.
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- Small street named after our President’s small hands.
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- So many footpaths, so little time
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- on a walk through Hurstpierpoint. Beautiful hydrangeas.
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- View from Martin & Sarah’s roof
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- the view of the South Downs National Park from the top of Devil’s Dyke
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- hee hee hee chocolate bars
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- C and the colors behind him
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- Brighton’s chocolate alley. Mmmmm.
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- looking across the English Channel towards France from Brighton
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- just like Atlantic City, New Jersey
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- Bleak Amusement Opportunity #24.
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- Pretty empty beach scene on this day. But beautiful nonetheless.
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- Windy and a bit cold. Burned out pier in the background.
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- Mmmmm, delicious Japanese restaurant.
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- a path near our house where I run.
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- one of the foxes that lives in our backyard
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- Kew’s flowers, with the palm building in the background.
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- Chris for scale.
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- inside the waterlily building. See Chris?
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- Kew’s Botanical Garden, directly under Heathrow’s flight path. Oh so quiet if not for the jet airplanes passing over every 90 seconds.
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- a very cool place
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- what the very cool place looks like from the outside
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- and from the inside
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- LOTS of very big Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) trees in Kew
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- For those of us who do well with gluten, sugar, dairy, and fat, what could possibly be better than a scone with clotted cream and raspberry jam? OMG, so delicious.
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