Bonfires, Bands and Beaches in Eastbourne

Our first random location worked out well. Trying to balance out our Schengen time https://chosenfugue.xyz/2018/10/07/schengen/, looking for somewhere easily accessed after our 14 hour bus ride, on the coast and a faded, Victorian seaside resort. Bingo.  A two hour layover in London, enough time for a walk past Buckingham Palace, buy adapters and a coffeeContinue reading “Bonfires, Bands and Beaches in Eastbourne”

Belgium part 2

Not sure what it was about Antwerp. The contrast of our monastic hostel room to the exquisitely tiled/painted/carved ceilings/walls/floors of almost every surface? Wide boulevards with huge, stately buildings with fingertips of narrow winding streets lined with delicately, detailed row houses? Waves of people- walking, riding bikes- there was a vibrancy with a super pleasantContinue reading “Belgium part 2”