There is a Crack in Everything

(Look at Chris Bevan's link below.)

Took youngest for an interview at Southampton Uni - we escaped and ended up at Hythe - I was desperate to see the sea - the Solent sufficed. But we got so much more...

We walked out on the pier - 7th longest in the country at 2,100 feet, and then caught the tiny train back, all for £1,50 each. It's the world's oldest pier train - was built in the Great War and used in the Avonmouth Mustard Gas Factory, and began operating here in 1922. The pier was opened in 1881, and it was from here that George VI and other heroes departed on D-Day in June 1944. Now there is a ferry to Southampton every half hour.

Rows of gulls on the railings, a tiny marina surrounded by small houses - can you IMAGINE walking out on to your verandah and boarding your yacht?? - an oyster catcher busily pulling somethings out of the mud, and a pair of swans sailing majestically under the pier. And sun on water and my man beside me.

And VERY cold fingers from taking photos.