We’ve visited Joan and Peter twice before and each time, we were clock watching, worried we would miss our train back to London. This time, we are staying in town so and we can enjoy a leisurely, unhurried visit and spend time exploring Eastbourne for a change!

What a way to start a holiday!

1066 Battle of Hastings: Abbey & Battlefield

The most famous battle in English history – the 1066 Battle of Hastings – didn’t actually take place in Hastings; it was fought 6 miles away at what is now the town of Battle. After William’s Norman soldiers defeated King Harold’s Saxon army, the newly crowned Conqueror founded the magnificent Battle Abbey on the spot where Harold fell.

Pevensey Castle

Pevensey Castle’s impressive ruins stand on what was once a peninsula projecting from the Sussex coast. This naturally defensible site, first fortified by the Romans, was most famously the place where the Norman Conquest of England began, when William the Conqueror landed there on 28 September 1066.

Peter took us on beautiful walks while Joan stayed at home preparing our delicious meals!

The Seven Sisters

The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex. The Seven Sisters cliffs run between the mouth of the River Cuckmere near Seaford, and the chalk headland of Beachy Head outside of Eastbourne

We enjoyed our time with you tremendously. Thank you for all your generosity. Until we meet again 💕