Lewes
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Pells Pool, Lewes
For all its myriad charms, Brighton lacks a good, old-fashioned, public outdoor pool or Lido. [1] It had one once – at Black Rock, below Kemptown, before the dirt, dust and noise that came with the construction of Brighton’s crappy Marina put punters right off their morning breast stroke. It closed in 1978, and the Read more
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Walking from Lewes to Rottingdean
On a windy, sunny Sunday afternoon, I got my butt out of my usual, sometimes self-defeating patterns of weekend behaviour and took myself up into the Downs. I’m very lucky to have the South Downs National Park on my doorstep, and I have been rationing bits of it out to myself slowly. My brain forever Read more
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Lewes to East Grinstead by bike, via Forest Row
I’ve gazed at the High Weald from the top of Ditchling Beacon many times, wondering when I’d finally make it there. And, like unlocking a new section of map in Tears of a Kingdom, that day finally came. The section along the coast from Worthing to Brighton I’ve already written about; so too the rather Read more
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Brighton to Lewes (the scenic route)
“I shall again be coming to Lewes. But I may come over the Downs next time.” Those words were written last November, after cycling the recommended, direct route from Brighton, which takes one grimly along the edge of the thundering A27. The Downs route is more indirect but much, much nicer. First one cycles along Read more
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