Littlehampton to Brighton

23nd to 25th April

We have entered the land of the hose-pipe ban: Sussex. It's very wet!

Here we are in the rain absorbing history and culture in Arundel! The ever-helpful Richard of Arun Yacht Club gave us a lift inland from Littlehampton as Monday was our first seriously wet, windy day. The church (St Nicholas) outside which we pose, is interesting in that it is apparently unique in housing both a Catholic chapel and a C of E church. There's a locked screen between the two; only opened a handful of times in half a century (Does that tell us something?). I may have got all this wrong, but anyway the wheelbarrows of flowers outside were exuberantly colourful despite the weather!

Today, Wednesday is another very wet windy day and we have an uncomfortable berth wallowing in Brighton marina, as the spray flies over the breakwater, and a swell from southerly gale finds its way into the entrance.

In an interlude between over-boisterous wind and rain, we sailed on Tuesday along the fine retirement coastline of Worthing, Hove etc to Brighton. And Brighton is as good a place as any for stormy shore-bound days.

Another bit of the route is here (click the left hand icon after the link opens)  http://www.a-trip.com/tracks/view/101751