Our only desert

The first time we stayed here, over five years ago, one of the first places we went to was Dungeness as it was somewhere Gordon had always wanted to see. Since then we have been several times, as we both like it, probably for different reasons. I just love the sheer space and emptiness of it and yet I like that bits of the past, and the present, are an integral part of the landscape. 

And whist we were there Gordon was happy to find that, for the first time, the old lighthouse was open . . . so up he went. The first extra is one of many photos he took from the top. The red building is the station for the little Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, with a train just leaving - very full as it is half term.

On the way to Dungeness we searched out the last of the Mediaeval Churches of Romney Marsh. This was St Mary, East Guldeford, Rye - see second extra.  The only one of the churches to be constructed in brick and the only one in Sussex, it was built in 1505 under the patronage of Sir Richard Guldeford. A strange looking building - apparently there was once a tower where the buttresses are now. 

We also stopped off at Dungeness RSPB Reserve, an excellent place.