SOUTHEAST ENGLAND – World Travel

Eastbourne

WorldTravelDB.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:59:57 +0000

A classic golden-oldie seaside resort that has long brought to mind images of octogenarians dozing in deck chairs or tapping their feet to brassy tunes on the 1930s bandstand, elegant Eastbourne nonetheless likes to promote its many charms to sprightlier generations. There’s certainly no doubting the appeal of its pebbly beaches, scrupulously snipped seaside gardens and picturesque arcade-free promenade, but if you’re looking for cosmopolitan buzz, grab your chocolate-flake ice cream and head for Brighton.

The tourist office (0906 7112212; www.visiteastbourne.com; Cornfield Rd; 9.30am-5.30pm Mon-Fri, to 5pm Sat Apr-Sep) can fix you up with accommodation for £3. Email can be found at Coffee Republic (438576; 69 Terminus Rd; per 20 min/hr £1/3; 7am-6pm), near the tourist office.

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Southend On Sea

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On the doorstep of London, the seaside resort of Southend certainly has its selling points to the capital’s weekenders: sandy sprawling beaches for one and an absurdly long pier for another. However, it’s also one of the more gaudy and belligerent of England’s summer sun-and-sea destinations, thick with lurid amusements and seedy nightclubs. But if you have a craving for ice cream, fish and chips and salty sea air, it will be well satisfied here.

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Essex

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Poor old Essex has been the butt of English jokes and target for snobbery for decades. Its inhabitants are ridiculed for their bottle-blonde manes, promiscuous persuasions, witless ways and loud cars. But throw the stereotypes aside and you’ll discover a county filled with diversity and diversions. Here lies historic Colchester, Britain’s oldest town with a burgeoning arts scene. Sleepy medieval villages hide down winding lanes and amid countryside that inspired the painter Constable. But if you’d rather skip culture and seek out Essex’s saucy stereotypical soul, make a beeline to Southend-on-Sea, the most popular fun-in-the-sun resort near London.

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St Albans

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A mere 25-minute train ride from London, St Albans is one of the most interesting and attractive spots in the Home Counties.

Founded as Verulamium after the Roman invasion of AD 43, St Albans was renamed in the 3rd century after a Roman soldier, Alban, lost his head (both literally and his detractors believed figuratively) in punishment for sheltering a Christian priest in AD 209. He became England’s first Christian martyr, and the small city soon became a site of pilgrimage – visitors can still see the shrine in the majestic cathedral.

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Farnham

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Farnham is Surrey’s most attractive market town. It’s practically empty during the week, which makes it a lovely and relaxing place to visit. The town’s main enticements include admiring the exquisite Georgian homes, shopping in the independent boutiques (some of which are on the pricey side), walking and cycling in the surrounding countryside, visiting the charming museum and popping into one of Surrey’s only intact castles.

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Surrey

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Surrey is the place for wealthy London commuters to choose when they sprog (reproduce), move out of the city and buy a country pad. As such there are two strands of residents – those who commute and earn fat bonuses and those who are local and don’t – and some people mix better than others. Further away from the roaring motorways, the county reveals some inspiring landscapes made famous by authors Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen.

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Hampshire

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Think of Hampshire and images of petticoated heroines, stiff-backed gentlemen and rolling rural landscapes of novelist Jane Austin (1775–1817) may spring to mind. But while still blessed with those undulating chalk downs and fertile agricultural valleys, this is a remarkably varied county. Winchester, once capital of the powerful Kingdom of Wessex that extended into Wiltshire and Dorset, delights with its fascinating cathedral and beautiful setting. The coastline too is rich in maritime history, not least at Portsmouth, home of the once-mighty Royal Navy. And Hampshire’s southwestern corner also claims the lovely open heath and woodlands of the New Forest.

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West Sussex

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Serene West Sussex comes as a little light relief after the faster-paced adventures of Brighton and East Sussex. The tumbling hills and valleys of the South Downs dominate the countryside. And both dreamy Arundel and dignified big sister Chichester make good bases from which to explore the county’s winding country lanes and scout out its remarkable Roman ruins.

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Hertfordshire

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Hertfordshire is a small county of fast-disappearing though still pastoral farmland. But it’s not all daisies and buttermilk here. Hertfordshire is also home to stunning St Albans, a predominantly Georgian town that dates back to Roman times, and Hatfield House, one of Britain’s most important stately homes and the county’s top attraction.

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Whitstable

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Famous for its succulent oysters, which have been harvested off these warm shores since Roman times, Whitstable has an unspoiled charm far removed from other regional resorts. Still a humble fishing village at heart, its streets sport names like Squeeze Gut Alley and Skinner’s Alley, and a host of venerable old seafood restaurants. The shingle beach is barbed with rows of groins, but is a pretty stretch nonetheless, dotted with multicoloured beach huts and overlooked by sharp cliffs east of town. And from atop the grass-topped Tankerton Slopes you can spy the Street, a narrow shingle ridge stretching half a mile out to sea but only exposed at low tide.

The tourist office (275482; www.visitwhitstable.co.uk; 7 Oxford St; 10am-5pm Mon-Sat Jul & Aug, to 4pm Mon-Sat Sep-Jun) can help you find and book accommodation, while the nearby library (273309; 31-33 Oxford St; 9.30am-6pm Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri, to 1pm Wed, to 4pm Sat) can make you a temporary member to use its internet terminals.

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