A day out.

 

Today Andrea got up really early and got ready to go out...... and I insisted she take me with her!!

We went up to the train station!

The train we got on was mega busy so we couldn't really take any pictures.....

But we came into London!!!

Oh, we not going by bus??!

Oooooo love the mosaics here!!

We got off here!!  We met someone here and then walked off up the road...

.....for a shamanic drumming do!  We worked with the snow bear today (not a polar bear, those are different) and the coyote who's the trickster like Loki.  Coyote makes us really concentrate and focus on what we need help with from the snow bear.  We also made a herb offering (into the red and blue basket top left) - ours was oregano and white sage that our friend had brought.

After a fab day there, we stopped for coffee on the way back to the station, and then went to get the train.

Our friend had to get back to Waterloo but we got off here.

And then went to get the bus!

It's the 205!!

They got a peace card

Oh that looks a bit art deco, doesn't it?  With the curved corners.

And here's Old Street Station

Ooo posh!

Oh I know where we are now!

There's Kings Cross over there!

And there's St Pancras!

Really like that building!

It's time to get home!

Oh!  New window dressings!!

Let's go in!!!!!!!

We'll show you what we bought later!!

Oh!!  Our train is due in about four minutes!   Excellent!

We got a window seat as well!

Here's Blackfriars Station

Oh, there's the Shard over there!

On the way to London Bridge!

And then we snoozed all the way home!!

Not long to wait for our bus back, either

And we got off here!

We got some more coffee because we're almost run out AND we got some bis kwits!!!

Our friend gave us a bag of white sage

And this is one of the tobacco offerings that were available if you forgot to bring your own.

We might send this one to Helena, though, if she'd like to have it.

What a fab day out!

A trip to Eastbourne.

We'd heard about an arty fundraiser in Eastbourne and they wanted people to donate postcard sized paintings to exhibit and sell off.  So we painted two postcards, and we're going to take them over to one of the drop off points in Eastbourne today.

So we headed into town and waited for the 12X bus over to Eastbourne.

We got a window seat!

Ooooo!  Art Deco!

There's some proper posh buildings down here you know!

And a windmill!!

That's Saltdean Lido, another art deco building!

WHAT?  WAIT!!!! Stop the bus!!!!  CAYKE!!!

We're going through countryside now.

It's very pretty round here

Except the bushes keep getting in the way of taking a decent picture!!

Ah, that's better!

There's a pretty church too

Aha!!  We got off here at the station!

Right ho, we've got to go down here now.

Ooo that's pretty!  But it's not the drop off point.

Andrea says it's down here somewhere.

Ooooo singing bowls??  Not the drop off point.

Here we are!!!  Sicilia-Qui coffee shop, this is the drop off point!!!

Here is it!!  The official postbox and it already had some postcards in it!

So we popped ours in too!!  

And then stopped for a coffee!!

We were staving hungry by now so we went over the road for a late lunch.

Turkish.

Right ho, let's peruse the menu....

We got a fizzy drink.....

And they brought over some little cracker things with two different dips to nibble on.

The crackers were proper yum!

We ended up getting a creamy chicken with some rice and a salad - house special apparently and it was YUMBO!!!  We'd have this again - way too much of it though but it was really good!!

After we completely stuffed our faces, we decided to head off back home.

So we sauntered off to find the bus stop.

We went upstairs for the return trip.....

We got a fabulous view!!

It's gorgeous countryside round here.....

And that's Cuckmere Haven over there!!

See?!

We must come out here for a proper look one day

I'm glad we came out today!

We're in Newhaven now - can you see the ferry in the distance?!?!? That's the Newhaven to Dieppe ferry!

The nose has tipped up to let the cars drive on!

It's interesting round here, eh?!

Oh!!  BEAR!!

We went along the coast for a while....

You can just see the cliffs on the right hand side....

sort of, if you squint a bit.....

That's Brighton Marina there!

And there's Brighton Pier!

Glorious weather today too...

That was a very fancy hotel but it burnt down a few years ago.  Think part of it will end up demolished....

And we got off here at the last stop.

Then we walked round the corner to get another bus from here.

And got off here......!

And I found a shiny penny on the way home too!!!