farms2fields: Life in backwards and forwards

There is a song by David called Life in Slow Motion, I don't feel that's us at the moment, for that matter that is ever has been. We don't live life in slow motion, I think that our pace is designed just for us, but I often find myself looking backwards and forwards, while looking at the present as well. I've had the thought that it would be helpful if we humans had 3 eyes, one to look at our past, one to look at our present and one to look at our future, but we only have two so you can't look at all, all at the same time. Enough waffling as they say here and on with the show of looking back. When last I blogged I left off with our upcoming venture to the south coast and across the English Channel, so that is where we will transport ourselves now.
Early on the Tuesday we arose, packed our small amount of stuff for the overnight stay and we're off to the south coast of England, where the channel waters coolly (I guess that's a word?) brush up against the white cliffs and the rocky beaches. We surfaced in Seaford a quaint little seaside village that is probably quite bustling during the warm time of the summer, but not exactly on a freezing cold November morning, but that is joy of the open space as we had the ocean to ourselves basically. It was beautiful to look out at the horizon and see numerous ships and other sea going vessels all making their way through this historically and economically important shaft of water that separates the UK from the rest of Europe. After being blown around and chilled to the core we snuggled back into the Rover for a wonderful jaunt down the a seaside road that eventually spilled us into the larger towns of Eastbourne and Hastings. Both of these towns were quite ravaged during repeated WW attacks so they are quite old but look relatively modern. Many towns and cities especially in the south are the same situation as the bombing attacks took their tole on the country. Btw we did find an old and I mean old castle, fortification near the coast it was originally built near 1000, so ya that was cool.
We found a diner kind of place for fish n chips in Hastings, this is a town that used to be hot stuff for visitors but I think it's time is past, it seems over touristized (word?) but anyway we did eat there. After that I decided to make a run for a castle that i knew was in the forest area north of town, I was not able to figure out the TomTom (GPS) well so I winged it and followed my insticts. I knew the castle was near Bodiam so I drove north on a small road which eventually led to a very small farm like single lane road. This led to a sign with 2 villages one way, 2 villages another way but no Bodiam. At that point Karisa piped up with the comment that a wooden signpost had broken and where that signpost would have been would have said Bodiam. So we quickly and quite adrenaline rushed zipped down the hill, where and I quote said "I'll bet there will be a castle once we round this corner" of course there it was as we rounded the corner. it was movie like, I'm sure this castle has been the set for many a film in it's long existence. From there we drove on attempting to find our friends Tim and Vanessa's house near Dover. You probably have heard of Dover because of it's white cliffs, it is known also as a seaport city. We actually almost drove into the port by accident, luckily we went around a roundabout and back out of town to where we eventually found Tim's place, he lives only one block from the seaside, not bad digs eh? To be honest I starting to run out of gas and I haven't even gotten to the mainland part of our trip, but do enjoy the pics from this portion of the trip.

Wall of Pevensey Castle