Today we went visiting Anita's Aunty Audrey, Cousin Jamie and Aunty Josie who all live in Eastbourne on the South Coast. From our hotel in Euston we went across London by Tube to Victoria Station where we boarded a Southern Railways train for Eastbourne. We settled into the front carriage of our 8-car train as the train was, in typical fashion for trains in England, dividing in two part way on our journey. For our particular train, it divided at Haywards Heath with the rear portion going to Littlehampton and our portion going to Eastboune and on to Hastings and then Ore.
Jamie met us at Eastbourne Station and took us to Aunty Audrey's place after first driving down the beside the seaside. Eastbourne Pier was a magnificent sight. It was a pity that we didn't have time to go and explore it however today was about visiting family so it will just have to wait until the next time we are in England...
We last saw Aunty Audrey about 13 years ago when she last visited Australia and we hadn't seen Jamie since we were last in England 35 years ago so it was really great catching up with them. Aunty Josie lives nearby so we all went around to The Rodmill, their local hotel, for lunch. After lunch we all went back to Aunty Audrey's place and continued talking about family and old times. Eventually it was time for us to return to London so Jamie dropped us back at Eastbourne station in time to catch 5:57 PM train. We arrived back quite late and had dinner downstairs in our hotel again.
Victoria Station concourse - the big wait for the platform number to be displayed
Victoria Station - our train to Eastbourne is on the right
We last saw Aunty Audrey about 13 years ago when she last visited Australia and we hadn't seen Jamie since we were last in England 35 years ago so it was really great catching up with them. Aunty Josie lives nearby so we all went around to The Rodmill, their local hotel, for lunch. After lunch we all went back to Aunty Audrey's place and continued talking about family and old times. Eventually it was time for us to return to London so Jamie dropped us back at Eastbourne station in time to catch 5:57 PM train. We arrived back quite late and had dinner downstairs in our hotel again.
Aunty Audrey, Aunty Josie, Anita, Jamie (l-r)
A fond farewell
Our train to London arriving at Eastbourne
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