I've Got a Ticket to Rye

[faustus]

After last Saturday's trip to Hastings, another venture into Sussex along the Marsh Link, and possibly the last venture to a new place along that line for a day trip - I've done Bexhill, but any further than that is a two hour train ride. Appledore, whilst suitably Harry Potter, looks too small to make it worth a train ticket and ditto Winchelsea, where the train only calls twice a day. Time to think about Gravesend and such like.

First thought is that Rye is very like Sandwich, also a Cinque Port and I suspect of similar vintage. A very compact town with narrow, windy streets and remnants of a wall. Both have windmills, but I don't recall a Martello tower in Sandwich. Rye has a distinct hill, on tope of which is a castle and a church, which look out over the marshes and the sea - in the distance you can see Dungeness (on the horizon, to the right of the crane).

A certain amount of shopping got done, but there were very few charity shops. Mostly it was just walking, and occasionally sitting, and then a long walk down to Rye Harbour folklowed by the perfect timing of a bus back. More later.

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[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Appledore, whilst suitably Harry Potter, looks too small to make it worth a train ticket and ditto Winchelsea, where the train only calls twice a day

Also, I believe each is some distance from the station, combining a monumental hike with little reward at the end.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

That was also at the back of my mind, having looked out at each station and noticing a lack of anything resembling civilisation.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

First thought is that Rye is very like Sandwich

You mean Rye isn't a sandwich?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Not if you go through Ham Street first, no.

There are buses round here marked "Sandwich Deal", which I've always assumed means a bottle of pop and a packet of crisps.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

When I first moved to Bristol a lot of the buses carried an advert for the local water company, reading "Round here we drink Bristol water." I always wished they'd had something similar in Bath.

[kayxh.livejournal.com]

The train I get in the evening goes to "and Ore" which I always find pleasing

[buffysquirrel.livejournal.com]

In Sandwich, there's a street called No Name Street, on which you can find the No Name Bakery, iirc.

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Indeed:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmbutler/178010406/)