Hailsham
Trip Start
Jun 11, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 15, 2008
Hailsham,
England,
United Kingdom
Saturday, August 9, 2008
The carriages are small too; reasonably comfortable once seated but we were amazed that some of the more "couch potato" tourists managed to get in through the low, narrow doors and swing around in the narrow space between the seats to sit down.
We took a break at New Romney and walked to the High Street (the main street in many villages is called High) and along it to window shop and take photos (of course)
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway 1
. Back at the train station we had a light lunch that was even worse than usual before looking at the very good model train exhibition. Tom was most impressed by the model train system with many trains running, lots of rolling stock and a detailed setting. We continued on to Dungeness which is a desolate spot, especially when it is cold, raining and windy, as it was for us. We decided against spending 40 minutes until the next train arrived looking at the new lighthouse, the old lighthouse and the gravel everywhere. Instead we stayed on board and rode back to Hythe.
On our return we stopped at Rye. It is a pretty village. Tom managed to take a photo of a rain drop - it fell on his lens as he was photographing a street scene. For afternoon tea he had what was called Sussex tea, which came with Cornish clotted cream so we think it was really Cornish tea.
Our host let us use his Internet connection so we were able to download our build up of emails and send a couple. The rest will probably have to wait until we get home.
