November 2025. Eastbourne.
Not a great pub town, bar the Lamb, but Eastbourne has Beachy Head up the road, 2 good Spoons, and a gem of an art gallery.
Mind, the exterior of the Towner is better than the interior. Only the exceptional Ravilious gallery was open and free.
Ravilious is a great, but if you want real art head down Carlisle Road towards the coast.
Eastbourne feels like a town of 50,000, but remarkably it houses double that.
It always used to be one of the more refined resorts, but feels a bit quiet, even for November.
Perfect day for the pier.
Perhaps I should visit all the UK’s piers and vote Southwold the dullest to annoy you.
Eastbourne is a throwback to simpler times,
when folk just wanted a chandelier with their cream tea,
and a seafood shed called Mr Winkles.
Got lucky with the light.
In order to make sure Mrs RM had to run back to the train I made her walk a bit further to the exotic tiling of Gelato Famosa for an ice.
What’s the difference between gelato and ice cream ?.
retiredmartin 
About 50p a scoop.
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Correct answer.
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This chap might help
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Eastbourne pier is the best I’ve been on. Much prettier than southwold’s pier.
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“Not a great pub town, bar the Lamb, but Eastbourne has Beachy Head up the road, 2 good Spoons, and a gem of an art gallery.”
Are the spoons for the Famoso Gelato?
“Only the exceptional Ravilious gallery was open and free.”
(looks down)
Yes, well; who would want to pay for that? (kidding!)
“Ravilious is a great, but if you want real art head down Carlisle Road towards the coast.”
(looks down)
Ok, Ravy is bloody Rembrandt compared to that!
“Eastbourne feels like a town of 50,000, but remarkably it houses double that.”
Yikes! We only have one locale on Vancouver Island that has a pop. bigger than that.
“It always used to be one of the more refined resorts, but feels a bit quiet, even for November.”
(looks down)
Are those palm fronds imported?
“Perfect day for the pier.”
(looks down)
Yup, better than my pier, but ours does the job for the tourists.
(we have seals!)
“Perhaps I should visit all the UK’s piers and vote Southwold the dullest to annoy you.
Pfft. You’ll have to try harder, for me at least.
“when folk just wanted a chandelier with their cream tea,”
Blimey! I’d be leery to sit anywhere near that!
“and a seafood shed called Mr Winkles.”
He certainly ‘winkled out’ of being open.
“Got lucky with the light.”
(looks down)
Your photo taking seems to have, improved?
“In order to make sure Mrs RM had to run back to the train I made her walk a bit further to the exotic tiling of Gelato Famosa for an ice.”
You’re a cruel man, but fair.
“What’s the difference between gelato and ice cream ?”
Ah, gelato usually has more milk and less cream than ice cream, and also does not contain egg yolks.
I know this because I had the most amazing gelato in Florence, Italy (Vivoli?) back in 1980.
Cheers
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Thanks Russ, I always did wonder, although I’m not sure what contributions the egg yolks make.
Had a nice pineapple ice cream in Madeira the week before last, although whether it was a gelato, is anyone’s guess.
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I think I read something once about pineapples on cruises !
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Paul,
No idea myself on the egg yolk thing (perhaps I’ll ask my wife?).
All I know is that gelato way back then was simply amazing.
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Do you eat the sort of seafood Mr Winkle sells ?
Not sure many Brits do.
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Sadly, I am a bit of a throwback (comes from my formative years being miles away from the sea).
People here stare at me when I tell them I’m not a big fish lover, as I live in a place that is a bit of a mecca for fish lovers. We are known as one of the salmon capitals of the world (you can fish for salmon year round here). I’m ok with having fish and chips at a restaurant once in a while. And, I must say, having salmon caught fresh that day, pan fried with a bit of lemon juice, is an absolute delight. But I could care less about crab, lobster and all of the littluns; shrimp, mussels, oysters, clams and the like. They smell (and taste) too ‘fishy’ to me. 😉
That being said, my wife is a HUGE fan. One of the traditional meals for her Clan is ‘fish and rice’. In camp, we had to have it on for breakfast each day for the locals. Her family does their annual fish camp for the first week of July every year up in Telegraph Creek, BC. They harvest salmon like there’s no tomorrow. They smoke it right there, as well as canning and jarring it. A lot to that goes to the elders for the winter (they do the same with any moose that is shot in the fall). My wife has started to can/jar her own salmon this year, seeing as how she no longer ventures up north in the summer. She has a friend whose husband is an avid salmon fisherman (twice a week in the summer). Her friend was getting fed up with all of the fresh salmon (!) so she and my wife made a deal. During the summer she brought my wife four fresh salmon each week, and my wife jarred two of them for her, and kept two for herself. Win/win!
My wife is good friends with the owner of Crabby Bob’s here in town at one of the docks. Whenever we have company she’ll go down and get a bunch of crab, salmon, black cod (a specialty apparently) as well as some clams and mussels and what not, and do a big fry up for supper. (I have a steak) 😊
Ok, I’ve rambled on long enough (not sure if I answered your question). 😇
Here’s a link to Crabby Bob’s so you can get an idea of what they have:
https://www.crabbybobs.ca/products/
Cheers!
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That gull & pier shot is fit for a calendar as is the “lucky” light shot.
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