Booked a week in Rye........... anyone any tips?

[EnidBlyton]

I realise it is near camber sands
and hastings
anyone any other tips oh knowledgeable people?

Only to say that it is absoluteely lovely there. I went before Christmas years back, got off the train on a Friday night after work, in the dark, with frost all over the place and it was so beautiful it was like something out of a film. Still sends shivers up my spine now when i think of it.

I do appreciate that it's probably not like that in June! Hoep you have fun there.

thanks.

YOu could read some EF Benson - his Mapp and Lucia books (or some of them, at any rate) are set there (there was a tv series of some of them, too).

When? I could meet you for coffee one day if I'm at our caravan in Camber Sands.

It has a market on a Thursday, take the train to Hastings (15 minutes away), explore the cobbled streets and antique shops. Go up the hill for an amazing view. Go to Whites for something to eat, harbour side. Don't park in Budgens - you'll get a ticket.

If the weather is nice, go to Camber Sands for the day, the beach is lovely not at all commercialised.

Where are you staying?

If you have a car, go to Dungenness, weird place, lighthouse at the end, see Derek Jarman's cottage and garden - Prospect Cottage.

For a longer trip you could get across to Hythe - the Howletts Zoo at Port Lympne is extremely good - massive gorilla enclosures with gorillas swinging about and beiing very entertaining, tigers, a safari trip through elephanst, giraffes etc. How far away if Battle? Battle Abbey and the Hastings Batle field, which is very well explained.

In Rye itself there is a nice little cafe called the Apothecary, god for soup-bsed lunches, and The Forge Restaurant is a reliable good quality steak / grill house. Beware - there is a wine bar that looks inviting for food on the quay, but they won't allow children!!

Walk up around the Citadel, through all the winding cobbled streets - you get great views fom all round the top.

Winchelsea beach and harbour

Bodiam Castle - magical.
Dungeness - weird and wonderful.

I used to live there, well just outside in winchelsea beach

The Inkerman Arms in Rye Harbour does the most delish fresh fish and chips. Its a pub/restaurant, so not a chippy! If you can eat one of their large fish and chips, you get a certificate too! (wow!) Defo worth it though.

Directions: From the main harbour front, turn left at the mini roundabout towards Winchelsea Beach. Take first left (only about 100 yards up, past the car park) and keep going straight. It looks like you are going onto an industrial estate, but keep going. Inkerman Arms is on the right hand side.