An excellent little holiday
Oct. 25th, 2012 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sollersI've just got back from a week and a half camping trip. No, I am not a total masochist: it wasn't in a tent, it was in a vehicle that started off life as an ambulance-type minibus. It has good lighting and heating and a rear lift designed for wheelchairs but which often takes G's motor scooter, and so it is easy to load. All but three pairs of passenger seats have been removed, and one pair turned round so that I can have a table with four seats, and there is ample room for a double airbed (essential with two dogs sharing it).
I wanted to check out Pevensey Castle - the Anderida part, as I wanted to get a handle on one of the most puzzling part of the earliest section of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: how Aelle managed to take it. I'll be posting separately on this whole issue, so for now I'll just say that I do indeed have a better idea now. I found a good site on the coast, just across a private road from the beach where doggies had good walks. They weren't impressed by the sea, or the pebbles, so we mostly stuck to the scrubby land between the pebbles and the road, which they did enjoy.
Next stop was East Anglia. We camped in Thetford Forest (excellent for walks; I'd been there before, with Bran and Llew, and an incident took place which is now the climax of "Unicorn Evils"). The focus this time was West Stop Anglo-Saxon Village, which I intend to visit again when re-enactment is going on; that was great, as nothing gives you the feel for a building like going inside one. What with that and some excellent books I got there (bank balance now down by £60) practically the whole of what I've got so far of the sequel, "The Man in the Wind", is being rewritten.
The weather was not good, but it didn't matter except when I was driving, and extremely informative: pouring rain and howling wind every night in Sussex, mist in Norfolk. A total break from modern technology and I came back feeling refreshed and renewed.
I wanted to check out Pevensey Castle - the Anderida part, as I wanted to get a handle on one of the most puzzling part of the earliest section of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: how Aelle managed to take it. I'll be posting separately on this whole issue, so for now I'll just say that I do indeed have a better idea now. I found a good site on the coast, just across a private road from the beach where doggies had good walks. They weren't impressed by the sea, or the pebbles, so we mostly stuck to the scrubby land between the pebbles and the road, which they did enjoy.
Next stop was East Anglia. We camped in Thetford Forest (excellent for walks; I'd been there before, with Bran and Llew, and an incident took place which is now the climax of "Unicorn Evils"). The focus this time was West Stop Anglo-Saxon Village, which I intend to visit again when re-enactment is going on; that was great, as nothing gives you the feel for a building like going inside one. What with that and some excellent books I got there (bank balance now down by £60) practically the whole of what I've got so far of the sequel, "The Man in the Wind", is being rewritten.
The weather was not good, but it didn't matter except when I was driving, and extremely informative: pouring rain and howling wind every night in Sussex, mist in Norfolk. A total break from modern technology and I came back feeling refreshed and renewed.
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Date: 2012-11-09 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-14 02:37 pm (UTC)I mostly stick to DW these days but often cross post to LJ with instructions to comment here.
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Date: 2012-11-14 02:40 pm (UTC)