I took some shots of cables and wiring today, which I’ll add to this album if they come out good enough.
It was very a quaint place and somewhere that I hadn’t really explored much in the past. A real old feel to it, with a sense that time might just have stopped there. It also has a famous windmill up on the hill that overlooks the village, setting itself out as a local landmark.
The first of the above albums is taken from an afternoon spent at the Brighton Carnival 2009. It was a glorious day weatherwise and I’d never seen my hometown’s stab at a splendid parade before. Admittedly, this particular version began in 2007 (when I was living in Tokyo), but it seems there have been carnivals in Brighton on and off since 1923.
We had a great vantage point, right near the tail end of proceedings, and got to see the whole thing. I was very impressed with the fabulous costumes that people went past in and we all got swept up in the lively atmosphere.
Last weekend, we got in the car and trooped off to Britain’s best-known contribution to world heritage – the mighty Stonehenge. Again somewhere I’d never been, it was pretty impressive. More in a conceptual sense and a ‘How did they do that?’ sort of way I suppose, because when you get there it really is just a stone circle on an open plain surrounded by hordes of tourists. Mind you, on the stone circle front, there’s not really anything else to beat it!
Not too far away from this country’s most ancient piece of heritage was Avebury, another set of standing stones from roughly the same era. There were far fewer people there and the stones were more spread out, but it was a great little add-on for the day out. Pictures from both places can be found in the album above.
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