and took so many photographs I am only making this one post today,
it was glad rags on, for our day out to Worthing, a seaside town on the south coast of England,
any minute now we will be on our way,
and we are off,
hurtling through the south east countryside,
and here we are,
at Worthing station,
we made out way into town, passing this display of models, in of all places a solicitors window,
and the memorial,
art gallery and museum,
'Shops!',
the centre of town had been pedestrianised,
with streets leading from a central hub,
this looked interesting, the Royal Arcade,
looking to the left the pavilion on the beachfront,
all set,
and we were into the arcade,
all of the usual high end shops, and no customers,
arriving at the other end we were on the beach,
looking back to a huge fish and chip restaurant, we remembered this place for our lunch,
but first a walk to the pier,
and a quick look at the history of it,
to both sides of it, all the fun of the fair,
looking towards Portsmouth, it was low tide,
a quick pose,
well I had to have one as well!
the pier now complete it seems strange to say it but during the Second World War a 120 meter section was destroyed, by us! it was thought the Germans could use it to invade England,
to the right the Ferris wheel doing it's rounds,
the weather could not have been kinder,
blue skies,
with just a few clouds,
but, and a big but, it was so windy,
as we walked towards the end of the pier, a section of murals with clear windows in separated the pier into left and right,
no prizes for guessing who!
some one had gone to a lot of trouble,
and time creating these novelty windows,
of course you could walk between both sides of the pier,
peek-a-boo!
great fun,
we arrived at the entrance to the end of the pier, unfortunately closed for repair,
a quick pose looking towards Brighton, about 14 or so miles away,
it was a shame the repairs could not have been finished for this summer, but there it is,
another quick pose,
it looked cloudy,
but we never seemed to be out of the sun,
we made our way back to the beachfront,
on this section of the divider,
montages had been made of underwater scenes,
a quick rest,
and we were on our way again,
not as many fishing boats as I would have thought,
looking back at the pier,
we turned to the right,
to walk past some more of the funfair,
I just had to have a pose,
these are the stalls I used to like as a kid, everyone a winner, what could possibly go wrong?
the Dome cinema and tea rooms,
it must be Mario!
if only I was a big bit younger,
and this is about as near as I will ever be,
to riding a high powered Yamaha!
the municipal gardens,
most probably,
the most photograph boat on this section of the beach, mainly because it is the only one!
we continued to leave the pier behind us,
another quick rest, I rather liked the seat ends,
they reminded me of the ones we had seen when we went to Battersea after our visit to the lavender farm,
we liked these apartments, over looking the sea, above them two birds of prey silhouetted against the white clouds.
one of the birds of prey, hovering over the building
and one was perched on a balcony,
the Crabshack, maybe this one for lunch?
we continued our walk,
it was time for a few poses, as you can see from Diana's hair it was really windy,
this I am guessing it was some sort of modern art installation,
all I can say is that if it was,
I really did not get it,
Diana just had to have a couple more,
photographs for the album,
in the distance a crazy golf course,
in this section a number of local handicraft and art shops,
on to the beach,
for a couple of photographs,
looking towards Worthing,
and towards Brighton,
we walked as far as this new development,
and then retraced our steps,
and past the birds of prey,
the two above the building both kites of course, the one on the balcony was really good, it had a head that swivelled! I am guessing to stop pigeons and other birds from nesting on the balconies,
the building was called The Eardley, and they were private apartments,
we had decided on our first choice of restaurant,
passing The Dome cinema,
and here we were at the fish and chip restaurant, by now we were both famished,
we were lucky to have a table seat by the window,
what a glorious day,
which just got better!
our meal arrived, Diana choses a seafood spaghetti,
for myself fish and chips, all of which was delicious,
a quick 'Cheers!', from Diana,
meal over we continued our walk along the seafront,
the seafront runs parallel to to the street in the distance, so we will use that on our way back to the station,
all the fun of the fair,
but listening to the screams I am not sure it was that funny!
and whilst this might be fun to some, for Diana and myself we decided to give this ride a wide berth,
a look into the souvenir shop,
and here it is,
not an ice-cream,
but a refrigerator magnet, well I suppose it is a sort of ice-cream,
if I was still not so full from lunch a plate of whelks would have been next,
I noticed this memorial as we were walking,
about a bomber crew,
that saved Worthing from a potential disaster in WWII, the aircraft was piloted by Edward Gordon Essenhigh,
time to cross the road,
and make our way to the street that runs parallel to the beach,
the building by the road had a mural on it,
which was quite nicely done,
it really looked quite neat,
the road was pedestrianised,
along streets leading from it,
nice flower displays were placed on the pavement,
naturally,
there were a few stops on the way,
we passed the eye on our right,
and stall selling flowers for the garden,
over the circle,
to more shops,
one thing about the streets here,
everywhere you looked there were nice displays of flowers,
we were soon walking past the solicitors,
with the model buildings in,
the legend,
as well as buildings,
there were a few puppets on display,
we knew we were close to the station,
when we saw the Grand Victorian Hotel,
its name over the entrance,
into the station for our train home, what a perfect day, until, we trusted Southern Rail to take us to Worthing and bring us home again,
just our luck, train cancelled! with no word of explanation we were told to make our way the 14 miles or so to Brighton and then catch the train back to Croydon from there, what a miserable excuse for a railway company, eventually we arrived at East Corydon and caught the tram back to Beckenham, where it was feet up for a coffee and a relax,
we decided to round off our day by watching Aquaman, not knowing what to expect I was blown away with the special effects, I almost believed the city of Atlantis was real! what a visual treat, and with the end of that we were off to bed.
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