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| Nymans - a ruined National Trust house in Sussex |
Bennett/Hainsworths are enjoying a few lovely and slow days at my cousins' Peter and Joan Swift in Crawley. We have toodled about to a winery, a National Trust garden, Brighton, country lanes. It has rained, and sunned, and rained. The land is just beginning to recover from a terrible winter, but even so, has flowers blooming and is green and verdant and civilized - the country roads are charming, the sheep are fat, the cows are orderly. There are so many people here, and the traffic is really quite horrendous; but life is dictated by tea, and lovely cheeses. The girls are a bit unused to hearing English spoken and today thought it quite amusing when I said "Merci" to someone instead of "Thank you". We are in a quandary of choice - which historic sites, which cathedrals, which castles, which charming villages to visit. We are making a list for "next time" while still trying to cram as much in as possible without becoming cranky and developing a "if this is Tuesday, it must be Britain" mentality. Definitely a first world problem.
Peter and Joan are being our gracious hosts and providing food, maps, advice and a wealth of information about the local area.
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| A Knot Garden at Nymans |
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| Roof of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton |
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| Brighton Pier |
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