We visited Bognor Regis in early May to meet up with our friends Joan and Udo who had come over from Germany to visit their friends in Slindon. They had also come with friends Rena and Helge who are new to caravanning. We were staying at the Caravan Club site Rowan Park which has a very welcoming entrance decoration.
Here we are at Slindon visiting John and Rosemary who took us on a walk around the village. Slindon’s cricketing heritage is honoured today both by the memorial of “crick”, wicket and ball. Some of the chaps resting close to the memorial. Sue and Rena.
Most evenings were spent having a natter and a game of dice in one of the caravans.
Bognor Regis beach, plenty of pebbles and not much sand. Bognor itself looks a little run down, but efforts have been made along the promenade to build some very nice properties. Also there is a mobile cafe on the prom which makes an excellent hot drink in beautifully presented crockery!
Sue and I went to Petworth House which has been featured on TV recently. The late 17th-century mansion is set in a 700-acre deer park, landscaped by 'Capability' Brown. The house contains the National Trust's finest collection of pictures, with numerous works by Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds and Blake, ancient and Neo-classical sculpture, fine furniture and carvings by Grinling Gibbons.
Rear of the house. Stuart at the lake.
Visitors can walk around the ground floor and kitchens, photography is also allowed, which is unusual for a National Trust property, but welcome. Here we are in the kitchens all very interesting.
On our second Sunday we went back to Slindon. I organised a geocaching trip around Slindon. There is a long loop of geocaches, but it was too long for our purposes because we wanted to be at John and Rosemary’s event sometime after 4.00pm. John’s hobby is woodturning which he does at home. The event is the Chichester Open Studios Art Trail J&R were also hosting an artist and photographer both of whom were superb.
John’s woodturning Tea on the patio. Thanks Rosemary.
Rosemary gave us a guided tour of her garden.
More tea? Rena and Helge Joan and Udo
Chichester was not too far away so we had a couple visits there. Once to have a walk around and the other to visit the cathedral and an art exhibition. Chichester Cathedral is famous for its modern art which was commissioned mainly during the late 20th century. These include a window by Marc Chagall, a tapestry by John Piper and a painting by Graham Sutherland.
Picnic lunch half way around the geocaching loop at Yapton.
It was a tough holiday!
Thanks to Joan and Udo for some of the photos.
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