June 28

June 28th (cloudy, windy and rainy)
Drove back into Bath this morning and walked around. Lovely old university city with world famous Roman baths that we refused to pay $40 Cdn to view. Instead, we found it quite interesting to observe the University of Bath’s graduation ceremony taking place at the cathedral in the town centre. As you have probably noticed, we are not going to many tourist attractions and prefer to rub elbows with the natives. We drove through to Stone Henge and continued to drive through Portsmouth to Brighton. If the weather was a bit better, we would have stayed in Brighton for a few days to recharge our batteries. It looked absolutely gorgeous. We understand it to be a favourite summer resort area of the Brits.
We drove further and stayed the night in Pevensey, a beautiful little spot on the North Sea with an endless sandy beach. It was very windy, but warmer, and we enjoyed walking on the beach watching the windsurfers go through their aerial routines. Thank goodness George thought to bring along our toques. I immediately telephoned the contact for “discounted ferry prices” for our Dover to Calais ferry tomorrow. It was a pleasant surprise to pay 71L’s and not the 120L’s we paid from Calais to Dover. Our savings worked out to $100 Cdn.
The winds and rain continued all through the evening and into the night. We went to bed early hoping for a change in weather tomorrow.